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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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irst Intothe glade, wheeled, fired and killed the first Indianto enter. Others, unable to see through the brushtill exposed to view, rushed into the trap till ninewarriors lay in a heap. Realizing this fact, aftersuch unexpected fatality, the pursuers raised thatdismal howl which means death and defeat, andfell back to their camp. The panic among some ofour men prevented pursuit. It is a fact thatamong those thus seized with the buck ague,were men then wholly inexperienced, who subse-quently became distinguished for coolness andgallantry-. Among others, besides those already named, whowere in this engagement were Wm. S. Fisher,commander at Mier seven years later ; Bartlett D.McClure, died in 1841; David Hauna, LandonWebster and Jonathan Scott. Dr. James H. C. Miller, who commanded, soonafter left Texas and settled in Michigan. Hisname has sometimes been confounded with that ofDr. James B. Miller, of Fort Bend, long distin-guished in public life under the province andrepublic of Texas.
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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS. 17 An Adventure in 1826. In the year 1826 a party of fourteen men of theRed river settlements, of which Eli Hoplilns wasquasi-leader, made a trip to the west, hunting andtrading with Indians. Besides Hoplxius I havebeen able to gather the names of Henry Stout,Jamas Clark, Charles Birkham, Charles Hum- phrejs, Ford, Tyler, and Wallace — eight of the fourteen — though the only publishedallusion to the matter I have ever seen (in theClarksville Times about 1874), only names Messrs.Hopkins and Clark and states the whole numberat twenty men — nor does it give the jear of theoccurrence. I obtained the date, the number ofmen and the additional six names from Henry Stout,some jears later. It seems that on their return trip homewards, thesefourteen men were surrounded and beset by a largeparty of Indians, some of whom had been tradingin their camp before. Instead of opening fire, theIndians demanded the surrender of Humphreys tothem, describing him by t

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