Convinced he had been cheated out of a pot on Feb. 18, 1872, an angry poker player started shooting at the owner of Fort Griffin’s first saloon.The military outpost was established five years earlier on a bluff high above the Clear Fork of the Brazos River northeast of present-day Abilene. To discourage raids by the tribes in the Indian Territory, an all too common occurrence during th...
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