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    • Reef Road

    • Reef Road
    • Reef
    • The Reef Road It was near dusk one day in the 1840s when a Comanche raiding party hit Corpus Christi. A unit of Texas Rangers in town chased the Indiand back to a spit of land at the end of North Beach. The Rangers decided to keep them ...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips
    • Firepower On The Frontier

    • Firepower On The Frontier
    • Revolver's
    • Firepower On The Frontier Each age discovers its own marvels ---- and becomes dependent on them. In Texas in the 1840s, the marvel of the age was Samuel Colt's repeating pistols. This weapon allowed Texans to fight Comanches and other hostile...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips
    • M. Headen & Son

    • M. Headen & Son
    • General stores - Texas - Corpus Christi - Eighteen forties; M. Headen & Son; Streets; Schatzel Street; Chaparral Street; Photographs
    • M. Headen & Son (corner of Schatzel and Chaparral, looking southeast. Location of Sun Pharmacy in 1940)" Double image of building exterior. Writing on the back identifies the photo as a scene from the 1840s.
    • General Photograph Collection

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