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9780870044946

The Settlers' War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s

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    9780870044946

  • ISBN10:

    087004494X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-08-15
  • Publisher: Caxton Pr
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Summary

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press forCaxton Press During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas's hills and prairies that continued for decades. During the 1860s, however, the bloodiest decade in the western Indian wars, there were no large-scale battles in Texas between the army and the Indians. Instead, the targets of the Comanches, the Kiowas, and the Apaches were generally the homesteaders out on the Texas frontier, that is, precisely those who should have been on the sidelines. Ironically, it was these noncombatants who bore the brunt of the warfare, suffering far greater losses than the soldiers supposedly there to protect them. It is this story that The Settlers' Wartells for the first time.

Table of Contents

Illustrationsp. vii
Mapsp. viii
Prefacep. ix
Before the Bloody Decade
"By naked conquest."p. 1
"Your troubles and difficulties will not cease."p. 7
p. 1860
"I tried that Virginia back heel on him."p. 12
"They held up their Bibles."p. 16
"A drought of such continued severity was never known before."p. 26
"This knife will take off my scalp before I get home."p. 31
"Eating twice their own weight in beef."p. 38
"Glorious News-Nine scalps taken."p. 44
"I am going home to die no more."p. 50
"MeCinceeAnn!"p. 55
p. 1861
"We will swoop down upon him at night."p. 68
"He would not killey me."p. 75
"They are afflicted with the disease known here as the 'Indian Grab.'"p. 80
"One of the most daring and extensive raids ever known."p. 85
"The soldiers did their best, but... "p. 96
p. 1862
They behaved "cowardly and disgracefully."p. 100
"Kill all the grown Indians and take the children prisoners."p. 107
"In the dark corner of the Confederacy.p. 112
"Friendly and true to the White man for years."p. 118
"Stock raisers and herders for the benefit of the Indians."p. 124
1863
"No army, no means, no system, no order."p. 128
"I am afraid to live in this country any longer."p. 138
"If you are a prisoner, don't be afraid."p. 144
"What is one man's family to the whole of the Confederacy?"p. 149
"We but little dread now of an invasion this winter."p. 153
'Too late to pray now, the devil has come."p. 159
1864
"I saw my sister's ghastly look."p. 166
"I have never been in a country where the people were so perfectly worthless."p. 171
"There we found mother's bleached bones."p. 176
"Indians are coming; get in the brush!"p. 182
"I am astonished at the number of fools in Texas"p. 191
1865
"He recognized no friendly Indians on the Texas frontier."p. 196
"Don't let them carry me away!"p. 201
"The booger-man did it."p. 207
"The wounds (from) scalping gave off such an offensive odor."p. 213
"There must be a frontier somewhere."p. 220
"They died of too large views."p. 228
1866
"The last time I saw my father, he was running for the creek."p. 235
"They did not yell like white people."p. 244
"I never sent anyone in search."p. 251
"They are Indians we are gone."p. 260
"Go with him and be a good boy."p. 272
"Someone has killed a maverick here."p. 281
"The Indians can be taught that Texas is a Part of the U. S."p. 288
1867
"When the soldiers got there the Indians got mean."p. 304
"Well, I would call them unfriendly."p. 311
"I regret to have to be laid away in a foreign country."p. 316
"The children cried for milk."p. 325
"The Indians of my agency have remained perfectly quiet and peaceable."p. 332
1868
"He was scalped and frozen when we found him."p. 336
"This is my poor child's hair!"p. 346
"The savings of all our youthful days was gone."p. 351
"The troops delight in seeing the savages commit their murderous deeds,"p. 359
"Father, you will never come back."p. 365
1869
"What sort of a tale will we tell when we get home?"p. 373
"If the Indians are going to kill us we need not let them get the watermelons."p. 379
"If you can make Quakers out of the Indians it will take the fight out of them."p. 385
"They still feel aggrieved."p. 392
Postscriptp. 398
Selected list of civilians killedp. 403
Troop strengths and civilian deathsp. 409
Rainfall in Texas, 1860-65p. 410
Bibliographyp. 412
The Authorp. 425
Indexp. 427
Illustrations
Sam Houston, Governor of Texasp. 23
The ruins of Fort Phantom Hillp. 39
Parker's Fort, near Groesbeck, Texasp. 57
Confederate Gen. Henry E. McCullochp. 71
Albert Pike, Confederate Commissioner to the Indian Nationsp. 73
Brit Johnsonp. 183
Marker at Elm Creek Raid sitep. 189
Todd Mountain, near Mason, Texasp. 203
Site of Taylor-McDonald cabin, Harper, Texasp. 218
Hondo Riverp. 237
Governor James W. Throckmortonp. 254
The Kiowa Satanta led the infamous Box Raidp. 267
Texas cattleman Oliver Lovingp. 321
Fort Richardson, near Jacksboro, Texasp. 329
Ruins of Fort Lancasterp. 335
Kiowa leader Big Treep. 343
Upper Willawalla Valley, Montague, Texasp. 357
Reconstructed cabins at Fort Griffin sitep. 375
Ruins of Fort McKavettp. 380
The Authorp. 425
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