Bigfoot Wallace was a texan, a texan who fought for texas independence. The son of Andrew and Jane Ann, born in Lexington virginia on April 3, 1817, standing at 6 foot 2 and weighing 240 lbs,This texas ranger had quite a big foot. Bigfoot wallace was a texas ranger as you know, he got his name from his, extremely large foot, beleive it or not his foot was actually 11 ¾ of an inch long, but let's get back to the facts, for a while he tried farming in lagrange But that didn't go so well, then in the spring of 1840 he moved to austin, His brother and cousin were shot in the goliad massacre, Moved to san antonio shortly after he moved to austin, He read and was no dumb frontiersmen, In the 1850’s wallace was captain of his own ranger company
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Some of his most graphic memories were of his experiences in Perote Prison after having survived Black Bean killing. Wallace later participated in the Mexican-American War Battle of Monterrey and the Comanche Wars. During the civil war he helped fight the evil comanches, he also owned a small bit of land he called his ranch on the Medina river gifted to hom by the state of Texas. Wallace was very honest but loved to stretch the blanket and make his stories longer and have more action, and did he love to tell stories. His olden days were spent in texas in a small village named bigfoot named after him i guess, bigfoot never did get married he was just an old lonely soul who loves to sit in his chair in his stuffy old house and tell stories about his life as a texas ranger in the battles of salado creek, hondo river, mier, black bean incident/mexican american war, monterey, comanche wars, and the american civil war. The black bean incident was where the texians would line up and eventually find a little table with a medium sized cloth bag filled with beans, for every 10, black beans there was 1 white bean, if you chose a white bean yu were considered lucky and were just taken prisoner, however if you were to draw a black bean you were known as unlucky and were shot point blank no questions asked, but some how old clever Mr. wallace was able to escape
Some of his most graphic memories were of his experiences in Perote Prison after having survived Black Bean killing. Wallace later participated in the Mexican-American War Battle of Monterrey and the Comanche Wars. During the civil war he helped fight the evil comanches, he also owned a small bit of land he called his ranch on the Medina river gifted to hom by the state of Texas. Wallace was very honest but loved to stretch the blanket and make his stories longer and have more action, and did he love to tell stories. His olden days were spent in texas in a small village named bigfoot named after him i guess, bigfoot never did get married he was just an old lonely soul who loves to sit in his chair in his stuffy old house and tell stories about his life as a texas ranger in the battles of salado creek, hondo river, mier, black bean incident/mexican american war, monterey, comanche wars, and the american civil war. The black bean incident was where the texians would line up and eventually find a little table with a medium sized cloth bag filled with beans, for every 10, black beans there was 1 white bean, if you chose a white bean yu were considered lucky and were just taken prisoner, however if you were to draw a black bean you were known as unlucky and were shot point blank no questions asked, but some how old clever Mr. wallace was able to escape