Phillip Nolan

Nolan's last trip began in October 1800 with about thirty men and a plan to catch wild horses in Texas north of Nacogdoches. Spanish officials ordered the party arrested, and on March 21, 1801 a force of 120 under Lieutenant Músquiz found him entrenched near where the Nolan River meets the Brazos. Several men surrendered at once, and Nolan was killed. Ellis P. Bean, his second in command, later wrote a memoir of the expedition and his imprisonment. Nolan's grave was lost; a stone bearing his name was found near Blum in 1949. His son was born that July.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kisatchie National Forest: Longleaf Vista — 28 mi
  A free ridge-top overlook and 1.5-mile loop above the 8,700-acre Kisatchie Hills Wilderness on the Longleaf Trail Scenic Byway, in the forest Caroline Dormon helped win in 1930.

More markers nearby

• Life Along The Sabine River — 1.2 mi
• Llano Del Rio — 1.9 mi
• Camp Polk Heritage Families — 7.7 mi
• Wolf Rock Cave — 13 mi