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Identifier: indianwarspionee00brow (find matches)
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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creek in the neighbor-hood that derives its name from him — Cut-hand. Mrs. Gordon knew many of these Indians,as they came to trade with the white people.After the war of 1836, Texas made no provisionsfor these Indians, and they returned peacefully totheir homes. The Shawnee chief was (tailedCow-leach, and lived on a prairie four milesfrom Clarksville, and it stdl bears his name.When our subject was first married, for one yearshe lived within a mile of a village inhabited by-friendly Choctaw Indians, and they were goodneighbors. Her nearest white neighbor, a Mr. ■Cullum, was four miles off. The white people atan early day were in constant dread of hostileIndians. There was a settlement of Caddos on theSabine river, about one hundred and fifty milesdistant, and one of them came and told Mrs.Gordon that the friendly Indians near had plannedto kill the white people. This was a favoritetrick of the Indians to get the white people toleave their homes so that the redskins could pillage.
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INDIAX WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS. 207 On this occasion the men took the Indian andwhipped him, the whipping taking place near thehouse of a Mr. Murphy. Just one year aftera party of Caddos came, found Mr. Murphy alonewith his sled to haul rails, and mending hisfence. He had nothing to do with the whipping,but they killed him, took his scalp, and had a wardance over it at their village, as reported by atrader, who said it was done for revenge, whichmust have been the case, as they did not even takeaway the horse. Mrs. Murphy heard the gunshotand went to see what was the matter. The Indianswere gone, but she found her husbands bod3.She was entirely alone and carried water to wash thebody, covered it and took the horse from the sledand rode two miles to her nearest neighbor to givethe alarm. For the first year after Mrs. Gordon came toTexas, unless the vessels weie brought with them,the people had none but gourds. For some yearsall the cloth was made from cotton, the seedspicked out wit

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