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Title: Indian wars and pioneers of Texas
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, John Henry, 1820-1895
Subjects: Indians of North America Frontier and pioneer life Indians of North America
Publisher: Austin : L.E. Daniel)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e fact more preciouslyfreighted with faith in the perpetuity of Americanunity and American liberty than a thousand theoriesand prophecies by political philosophers. It is thesimple fact that the American heart, as soon as timefor reflection had passed, disdained to tolerate per-secution for opinions sake; that the opposingsoldiers in the Civil War are long since friends andreconciled countrymen ; breaking bread together onholy days; voting together as seemeth to them bestnow, regardless of the past; sitting together in thesame sanctuary; counseling together for the com-mon weal as their conditions are now; partners inbusiness; their children intermarrying; jointlyburying their deceased comrades; jointly aidingtheir unfortunate comrades; and jointly upholdingeach other when unjustly assailed. Talk not ofAmerican liberty failing through faction, when con-fronted with this one ever-present, grand andheaven-blest fact! Leave that bewailing whine tomoral djspeptics and intellectual dwarfs.
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COMANCHP: INDIAN GROUP. INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS. 121 Indian Massacres in Parker County, 1858 to 1873. The first settlements in the present territory ofParker County were made about 1853-4. Thecounty was created by the legislature, December12, 1855, and organized March 2, 1856. It waslong exposed to forays by bands of hostile savages,and while no important battle was ever fought,life and property were insecure as late as 1873.During the existence of the Indian reservation onthe Brazos, in Young County, and especially fortwo years prior to the removal of the Indians toFort Cobb, north of Red river, in the summerof 1859, it was alleged, and almost universallybelieved by the border people, that many of the rob-beries and murders were committed by the tribesresident on the ten miles square embracing thatreservation. That matter will not be discussedhere. The writer was one of five commissionersdeputed by the Governor to investigate that matter,in 1859, the board consisting of Ric

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