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BORDER WARS OF TEXAS

Name: BORDER WARS OF TEXAS
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ISBN: 9780872440432

James T. DeShields

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: der prior instructions, stampededi the Indiana' horses. The ether twenty three men covered the rear, and prepared for battle. Forty or fifty mounted Indians made pursuit and heavyj skirmishing ensued, until t'tur cr live warriors had been tumbled from their horses. Ihey dre.w ci'f until re- enforced by about as many more who, however, made no attack, but traveled parallel with the retreating party, occasionally showing themselves, till the sun went down. But all this time the horses had been pushed in a gallop, and rendered too tired to be easily stampeded at night? the forlorn hope of the enemy." Thus the retreat continued by day and night, till the party arrived at Gonzalee in January, 1829, with the booty ?some 500 head of horses?which were equally divided among the captors. Capt. Brown died at Columbia, Texas, July 26, 1834, and rests from his toils within a few feet of Josiah H. Bell, and the once noted Capt. Bird Lockhart. MURDER OF ELIJAH ROARK. Among other early and worthy colonists on the Brazos was Elijah Roark, a native of North Carolina, who removed with his family "in a large wajon drawn by six mules" and settled on Oyster Creek, in 1824. Frugal and industrious, Jus e'orts were scon rewarded with crop yields and an increasing stock of cattle, hogs, etc. At that time San Antonio, some 230 miles distant, with but two small settlements en route,?at the crossing of the Colorado, and at Gonzalcs,?was the nearest and in fact, the only market in Texas. About the 10th. of December, 1829, Mr. Roark, with one man and his little son, Leo, left on his annual market .trip with about 100 fat ihogs and a wagon load cf butter, cheese, baccn, lard, soap, candles and various other things, which they expected to exchange for dry gcccX coffee, sugar, salt and other family ...

400 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1912