Some Of The Indian Troubles In
Texas
Compiled by J. Marvin Hunter
Account details especially a
raid upon the home of General Burleson
and his son, Ed at the family's
San Marcos Spring house in 1848.
Mentions: McCulloch's company
of rangers * Placido, the Tonkaway
chief * General Dick Scurry * Ed
Burleson * Alf, Tom * Jim Wilkerson
* Jim Carr * William Lackey * Barton
* Captain Shapley P. Ross * North
Fork of the Llano * Fort Martin
Scott *
Break-Up Of The Notorious Quantrill
Gang
By Major Morris U. Lively, Chaptain
U. S. Army.
In August, 1863, the notorious
outlaw, William Quantrill, and those
under his command, staged the outrage
at Lawrence, Kansas, which has come
to be known at "the Lawrence Massacre,"
in which many innocent persons were
killed. United States cavalrymen
were ordered in pursuit of the raiders,
which was made by virtue of the
famous "Order No. 11," by the terms
of which the desperadoes were to
be hunted and harassed constantly.
In the late fall of 1863, Quantrill
and his followers established a
rendezvous some fifteen miles northwest
of Sherman, Grayson county, Texas.
It is at this point that the actual
disintegration of the Quantrill
gang began. Here is the story.
Mentions: Bill Anderson * Miss
Bush Smith * Choctaw and Chickasaw
Nations * Ben Christian * Mrs. Butts
* General Henry B. McCulloch * Colbert's
Ferry * Taylorville, Kentucky *
Mrs Julia Duncan Welder *
Texas Rangers On The Scout
By A. J. Sowell (Continued from
Last Month.)
In 1870-71 the Indians were very
numerous and hostile on the Texas
frontier, and a call was made by
the Governor for several companies
of volunteers to go on a campaign
against them. There was an immense
scope of country to protect, stretching
from the Rio Grande to Red River.
The Indians were more numerous in
the northwestern part of the State,
and committed many depredations
under the notorious leaders, Big
Tree, Satanta, Sittanka, and others.
This account especially deals with
the conditions of the Texas border
at that time, especially in the
northwest, and relates incidents
of Indian warfare as recalled by
old settlers in that region.
Mentions: in 1870 and 1871, nearly
all the country from Fort Mason
to Red River was a howling wilderness
* Fort Griffin * Camp Colorado *
Pecan Bayou * Hubbard's Creek *
Dr. Gillespie * Sergeant Billy Thorn
* John Fitzgerald * Billy Sorrell
* Colonel Wood * Fort Cobb * The
young chief, Casteel * Sergeant
E. H. Cobb * Lewis Lee * George
Jackson * Salt Creek * Fort Richardson
* (Continued Next Month.)
Captain Ira Aten's Unique Letter
Account describes an old letter,
written by Texas Ranger Captain
Ira Aten, to his aged brother and
sisters, and is characteristic of
that gallant old Ranger, who was
one of the State's outstanding peace
officers in the 1870's and 1880's.
Mentions: Calipatria ranch *
A. T. Boyce * Radium Springs * Camp
Roberts * San Luis Obispo * Lelia
Lake * Cutler, Indiana * the XIT
Ranch * the Rhea Bros. ranch * Albert
Boyce Aten * Hoover Memorial building
*
Oliver Loving, The First Trail
Driver
By Grace Miller White.
The dust of the cattle trails
out of Texas has long been buried
in plowed fields and lost in fenced
ranches. The push of progress has
obliterated these famous landmarks
of another day, but in the history
of the cattle kingdom the men who
rode up and down these trails will
live. The most vital chapter in
the saga of the range is that made
by the Trail Drivers of Texas. To
this resolute breed of men the hazards
of mirage-haunted plains, the dangers
of encounters with fierce, hard-riding
plains Indians, and the difficulties
of handling slow-moving herds of
range cattle were but challenges
to their ingenuity and determination.
In meeting a desperate need with
fortitude, the Trail Driver made
himself an essential character in
the development of the cattle industry.
This account details the life of
one of the most foremost and perhaps
the first - Oliver Loving. In 1845,
with his wife, their five children,
and other members of his household,
Oliver Loving left their home in
Kentucky to come to Texas where
his cattle-ranching success grew
to legendary proportions.
Mentions: Blocker, Saunders,
Chisum, Driskill, Pryor * Colonel
Charles Goodnight * son of John
and Susan Bolling Loving * Hopkins
county, Kentucky * Miss Susan D.
Morgan * Mrs. Roach * erinda * Felix
Grundy Miller * Jefferson, Texas
* Caddo Lake * Lamar county * the
Millers * a 640-acre tract of land
in Collin county * Ft. Belknap on
the Brazos * Loving's Valley * John
Durkee * John Dawson * Kit Carson
* Margaret Louise * John Flint *
Isaac N. Roach of Weatherford *
Mrs. J. P. Owens * Ann Maria * Weatherford
* his son, William * Sarah * Ft.
Sumner * the Goodnight - Loving
Trail * Guadalupe Mountains * Rio
Sule (Azul), *
The Egglestons; A Pioneer Bastrop
Family
By Mrs. Julia Jones
Bastrop county archives and family
oral tradition recount the prominent
place that the families of two brothers
-- Stephen V. R. and Zina Eggleston
had in the early history of Bastrop,
Texas where they arrived from South
Carolina, in 1927.
Mentions: Josiah Wilbarger *
Stephen married Julia Ann Mosely
of South Carolina * Nancy Lee *
Col. Stephen F. Austin * Mrs. Mary
Austin Holley * Bolivar * Xavier
Mina * the Barkers * the Dozier
family * to Mr. and Mrs. William
Burnham on the Colorado River *
Judge R. L. Batts * the Bastrop
Steam Mill Company * R. H. Grimes
* Abner H. Cook * T. H. Mays * Samuel
Wolfenberger * J. W. Bunton * John
H. Brown * Smithville *
Alamo Phrase Buried In Obscurity
"Thermopylae had her messenger
of defeat—the Alamo had none."
Who first used that famous phrase
has been a question discussed for
many years. When Judge W. A. Keeling,
now of San Antonio, was Attorney
General some years ago, he did some
delving in the archives of the State
as result of an inquiry on the subject
from Senator W. E. Doyle of Teague.
Research by Judge Keeling brought
to light interesting information
on the famous phrase - here is the
story.
Mentions: Gen. Thomas Jefferson
Green * Joseph Cox, a stone cutter
* a sculptor named Nangle * Col.
Potter * Col. Reuben M. Potter *
the Crescent, a newspaper published
in New Orleans * Col. Guy M. Bryan
* Gen. Hugh McLeod *
In The Valley Of The Shadow
By L. C. Chamberlain
Mentions: Senator Wheeler of
Montana, Charles A. Lindberg * Senator
Tom Connally * Representative Lyndon
Johnson * Senator O'Daniel * MRS.
EAGER IS 100 YEARS OLD.
Mrs. Sarah Riddle Eager, of San
Antonio, celebrated her 100th birth-day
anniversary on Thursday, February
19th.
Mrs. Eager was the first Anglo
American born in San Antonio. She
was born on Commerce St. near where
the Aztec Theater now stands. She
lives now at 434 South Alamo St.,
in the shadow of the metropolis
which has replaced the quiet village
of San Antonio de Bexar, Republic
of Texas
