Bluffton, TX

Bluffton Overview

Isaac B. Maxwell had been on the road so long he had taken to talking to his mule.

Born in Tennessee and raised in Arkansas, some months earlier the 17-year-old had saddled a mule and started riding southwest toward Texas. He didn't stop until he got to the Colorado River in Burnet County. Looking at the high limestone cliffs across the river in what would become Llano County, he told his mule,...