Dear Peggy, Sorry I have been so long in answering your inquiry. The purpose of posting these names to the Palo Pinto County message board was to find out if any of these men were from the area. Capt. Joel McKee is the only one in this whole incident that I know was from Palo Pinto County. Now let me get to the story. The following are from the Sept. 13, 1861 issue of The White Man published in Weatherford, Texas: >From Palo Pinto we learn that more than fifty "Anti-Base-Line Rangers" left that county on yesterday for the headwaters of the Brazos. They will follow the Last Indian trail...we wish we were with them We hear from Erath County that a company of "Anti-Base-Line Rangers" will leave there to join the company from Palo Pinto. I found a story on the internet that was written by a descendent of Nelson Haven that said he was a partner with Joel McKee in a horse ranch. (Location not stated) It seems that the Indians stole some of their finest horses and they immediately applied to the Governor of Colorado Territory for permission to arm men and go after the horses. The Governor denied their request for fear that they might stir up the Indians. The partners took matters into their own hands and armed one hundred men with rifles. On Sept. 30, 1861 John Sowers was arrested in Denver and joined McKee, Martin Reiley and Robert J. Reed who were arrested the day before also in Denver. The 39 men that I listed in the previous email were arrested on Oct. 18, 1861 at Fort Wise (now known as Fort Lyon) for stealing ammunitions wagons and transferred to the Territorial Prison in Denver. It seems that all of these men were charged with treason and conspiracy although only McKee and six others are named in the indictment. Since no one quite knew what to do with these men, they were kept in prison until word could come from Washington, DC. Thirty-six prisoners decided that they had had enough of the jail and escaped on Feb. 27, 1862. Some writers suggest that the jailers had a big hand in the "escape" since they were tired of caring for them. There were 6 men listed as escapees that were not listed among those arrested at Fort Wise and then on April 14, 1862 twelve more were discharged having signed oaths of allegiance. The Rocky Mountain News of March 13, 1962 quoted the Buckskin Joe Mountaineer that stated Capt. McKee and 20 well armed and mounted men were at Pueblo a few days before. News from the South dated April 26, 1862 reported by A. U. Colby (appeared in the Rocky Mountain News May 3, 1862) states that Dr. Farner and the Railey boys went south and joined McKee's party below Fort Garland. On the next page of the RMN is a small article that says McKee has joined Sibley's forces in New Mexico. I have two theories about this whole incident. One is that these men were Confederate sympathizer trying to assist in taking the Colorado goldfields and the other that they were attempting to recover the horses that were stolen. The only knowledge I have of these men after 1862 is of Joel McKee, Nelson Haven and Dr. Jerome Glick. McKee went back to Texas where he became the surveyor of Palo Pinto County at some point and married Fannie Metcalfe in 1876 at the age of 53. Nelson Haven was reunited with his wife and daughters after she had had him declared legally dead and had remarried. Dr. Glick ended up in Montana as a reluctant vigilante. If you have any questions, please let me know. Linda McClendon