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1 online resource (464 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Preface; Part 1: Before the Bloody Decade; 1 "By Naked Conquest."; 2 "Your Troubles and difficulties will not cease."; Part 2: 1860; 3 "I tried that Virginia back heel on him."; 4 "They Held Their Bibles."; 5 "A drought of such continued severitywas never known before."; 6 "This knife will take off my scalp before I get home."; 7 "Eating twice their own weight in beef."; 8 "Glorious news --Nine scalps taken."; 9 "I am going home to die no more."; 10 "Me Cincee Ann!"; Part 3: 1861; 11 "We will swoop down upon him at night." |
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12 "He would not killey me."13 "They are afflicted with the disease knownhere as the 'Indian Grab.'"; 14 "One of the most daring and extensiveraids ever known"; 15 "The soldiers did their best, but theIndians generally outwitted them."; Part 4: 1862; 16 They behaved "cowardly and disgracefully."; 17 "Kill all the grown Indiansand take the children prisoners."; 18 "In the dark corner of the Confederacy."; 19 "Friendly and true to the White man for years."; 20 "Stock raisers and herdersfor the benefit of the Indians."; Part 5: 1863; 21 "No army, no means, no system, no order." |
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22 "I am afraid to live in this country any longer."23 "If you are a prisoner, don't be afraid."; 24 "What is one man's familyto the whole of the Confederacy?"; 25 "We but little dread now of an invasion this winter."; 26 "Too late to pray now, the Devil has come."; Part 6: 1864; 27 "I saw my sister's ghastly look."; 28 "I have never been in a country wherethe people were so perfectly worthless."; 29 "There we found mother's bleached bones."; 30 "Indians are coming; get in the brush!"; 31 "I am astonished at the number of fools in Texas."; Part 7: 1865 |
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32 "He recognized no friendly Indianson the Texas Frontier."33 "Don't let them carry me away!"; 34 "The Booger-Man did it."; 35 "The wounds caused by scalpinggave off such an offensive odor."; 36 "There must be a frontier somewhere."; 37 "They died of too large views."; Part 8: 1866; 38 -- "The last time I saw my father, he was running for the creek."; 39 -- "They did not yell like white people."; 40 -- "I never sent anyone in search."; 41 -- "They are Indians--we are gone."; 42 -- "Go with him and be a good boy."; 43 -- "Someone has killed a maverick here." |
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44 -- "The Indians can be taught that Texas is a part of the U.S."Part 9: 1867; 45 -- "When the soldiers got there the Indians got mean."; 46 -- "Well, I would call them unfriendly."; 47 -- "I regret to have to be laid away in a foreign country."; 48 -- "The children cried for milk."; 49 -- "The Indians of my agency have remained perfectlyquiet and peaceable."; Part 10: 1868; 50 -- "He was scalped and frozen when we found him."; 51 -- "This is my poor child's hair!"; 52 -- "The savings of all our youthful days was gone."; 53 -- "The troops delight in seeing the savages commit theirmurderous deeds." |
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54 -- "Father, you will never come back." |
| Summary |
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressDuring 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. Ins |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Pioneers -- Texas -- History -- 19th century
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- 19th century
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Indians of North America -- Wars -- Texas.
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Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1815-1875.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Indians of North America -- Wars
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Pioneers
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Texas -- History -- 19th century
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Texas
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011014019 |
| ISBN |
9780870045028 |
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0870045024 |
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0870045032 |
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9780870045035 |
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087004494X |
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9780870044946 |
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