DOCSLIB.ORG

Coryell County

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Coryell County History of Coryell County By FRANK E. SIMMONS Published by CORYELL COUNTY NEWS 1936 FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION 1965 DAYTON KELLEY Belton, Texas Printed by Waco, Texas CONTENTS Archeology of Coryell County ___________________ page 2 The Tonkawa Indians_------------------------------ 6 James Coryel! __________________________________ tl-13 Organizing Coryell County ------------------------- 15 0. T. Tyler, Fathe1· of Coryell County _______________ 19 Coryell County ----------------------------------- 21 Gatesville, in Its Eearly Days _______________________ 25 Era of Lawlessness________________________________ 29 Cedar Posts and Barb Wire _________________________ 33 Early Churches of Coryell County------------------- 37 Place Names __________ --------------------------- 44 Hugh Sheridan ----------------------------------- 51 Pioneer Industries--------------------------------- 52 Coryell County Authors____________________________ 54 Fort Gates ______ --------------------------------- 58 Legends of Fort Gates ______________________________ 62 Copperas Cove, City of Five Hills ___________________ 65 Turnersville ________________ ______________________ 68 ~'Vita ----------------------------------------------- 71 Ireland, Ewing, Ruth and Boaz ______________________ 72 Purmela. Oglesby --------------------------------- 73 Robert B. Wells, Minister and Lawyer _______________ 76 Richard G. Grant, Father of Gatesville ______________ 78 Early P!oneer Customs ______________________________ 79 Present ·Day Gatesville_____________________________ 82 Republic of Texas Land Patent ______________________ 89 'rhe Wends, Ge1'11lans, Other Nationalities ____________ 90 Mother Neff Memorial Park ________________________ 94 Jess Kerby, Oldest County Resident _________________ 97 Laying Cornerstone Present Courthouse ______________ 100 ERRATA Page 4, pars.graph 3, the word "ruder culture" should be used instE:ad of "richer culture." Page 6, paragrai:,h 3, "dispossess11 should be used in place of "dispose." Page 11, paragrapt,_ 3, "1834 and 1835" should read "1835 and 1836." Page 12, "1853'' should be "1854." Page 19, all references to "0. Y. Tyler" should be changed to "0. T. Tyler." Page 26, "Saunders J. Wilkerson" should be "Saunders & Wilkerson." Page 46, "Bertrand Branch," shot~ld be "Bertrong Branch.'' Page 48, ''Cunningham Cove" should be "Cunningham Cave.'' Page 52, paragraph 2 refers to the old Isaac McClain house three miles f l'om Whitson. In chapter on Coryell County Authors, paragraph 5, should be "Cave Creek," and paragraph 10 is "World War." Fort Gates, in 1850 was garrisoned by Cos. D and I. Page 63, paragraph 1. "legion" should read "legend." Page 68, "Boob- or Bobb-Pancake" in every caseshould read "Babb-Pancake." Page 72, parf.graph 2, "how-hide" typographical error, and should be '·cow-hide bottom chairs.'' Page 73, "Londford.'' should read "Langford." Page 74, last paragraph "J. C. Stockburger'' should read "J. E. Stockburger." Page 82. The monument commemorating James Coryell was erected on U. S. High way No. 84, three miles east of Gatesville and a bronze plaque beariP.g the fol1owing in­ scription in relief: "CoryeJI County. Created Feb. 4, 1854. Organized May 4, 1854. Formed from Bell County. Named in honor of Jame~ Coryell, Born in Tennessee in 1796. A member of th~ Bowie Expedition to the old San Saba Sil­ ver Mines in 1831. A Texas Ranger. Killed by Indians near Fort Milam, May 27, 1837. County Seat Fort Gat~s 1854, Gatesville since." ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS For valuable assistance in many ways in con1piling this history, our f;incere thanks are due: To many a pioneer, \vood chopper, farmer and ranchman n,)t menfioned in the text; To treasure hunters; To Judg·e Robt. W. Brown, and the County Comn1issioners, N. E. Jayroe, Dick Payne, H. E. Preston, and W. E. Hol­ comb; To Frank i)'Jbie for per!!l!ssion to use material ap­ pearing in TeX$\S Folklore Society publications; To Rev. L. J. Wetner and Prof. Geo. C. Engerrend; To information dtawn from "Pen Pictures from the Garden of Eden;'' To Miss Lo~sie Hume.~: and to Mrs. J. P. Kendrick for the loan of her valuable collection of Coryell County lore; and lo Mr. J. M. Frank's pioneer history. And t') the many others '¼1 ho gtive valuable sugge~- 1ions and information. Sincerely, July 4, 1936. Frank E. Simmons, Og·lesby, Texas. PREFACE In offel'ing this assembly of historical informa­ tion we do not pretend that it is a complete history of the County. We hav~ necessarily had to be brief; merely sketching an outline upon which a more complete history may be built. We have tried to be as authenic as to materials used, and yet we have tried to leave the thread of narrative so that a historical article may be attached at any given point without interfering ,vith our story or that of the other contributors. If we have given mor(.l space to some individuals, it is because the story of those individuals reflect conditions under ,vhich most pioneer f umilies lived. We have tried to trace the origins of place-names because most places bear a part of the history of a pioneer, or an incident in Coryell County history. For valuable assistance rendered we are obligated to Mrs. J. P. Kendrick, The Coryell County News, and for reprints from the McGregor Mirror. FRANK E. SIMMONS. ARCHEOLOGY. OF CORYELL COCXT"Y To compile a history of a thin,g, or place, is to be­ gin at the beginning-. It would be impossible to establish a definite chronology as to man's occupancy of the land now known as Coryell C() 11nty. Only the sciences of Archeology and Geolcgy can assun1e to establish that chronology and then it \\·ould be only theoretical. Accepting the theories of Geology and Archeology, as furnishing on approxin1ate date for man's arrival in the Leon Valley, we find that Coryell County history is us old, probably, as any that historians of the ,vorld have regarded. In 1914 while searching the Leon River banks, iu the Round Mountain area, for artifacts left by antecedent races, we noticed several feet below the top fJf the river banks strata of muscle shells, burnerl rock, charcoal and flint. Closer study sho,ved these to be buried middens or camping· •places that had been occupied by ancient n1en when the Leon Valley was several feet lower than it is now. We noticed that' these middens ,vcre always on top of a light coarse formation and over the111 ,verc several feet of finer, darker alluvium. In the sloughs, usually back sor:1e distance tro1n the river, flood waters had uncovered numbers of n1iddens that are several feet below the surrounding territory, where the alluvial deposit is removed, the ancient midden deposit condition occurs. Since we first noticed these subn1erged n1iddens in 1914, we have at intervals searched them for stonagc arti­ facts left by man. At a place on<» the Lynch far1n ,ve found in the Mid­ den Strata, in the river bank, a scrap of pottery, an extra ARCHEOLOGY OF CORYELL COUNTY 3 good mono stone, several good arrow heads, and an excel­ lent flint knife. At another place where overflows had uncovered a "Shell" midden we found more than fifty excellent flint arrow heads and knives, a bone tool, and a scrap of obsidian. We here quote from Frank Bryan's article in the 1935 report of the Central Texas Archeology Society: "The facts are these: you have some six known feet of midden material, with an abundance of light charcoal and ash in it, buried beneath fine black silt. The contact be­ tween the black silt and the lighter colored, sandy mater­ ial on the midden level is an unconformable contact which extends for miles up and dovvn the Leon in this locality. Some four miles on an air. line, down strea1n, the Leon loses its broad bottom and "'rinds a tortuous course be­ tween high limestone canyon walls. It has experienced great difficulty in cutting its way throug·h this thick heel of limestone where it is up-arched over a lo\v anticlinal fold, some ten miles west of the we~t series of the Bal­ cones Fault System. "The geological explanation, were it not complicated with the age of man, would be this: During the slipping along Balcones Fault Systen1, this anticlinal arch exper­ ienced an uplift of sufficient height to dam the waters of the Leon, causing it, for a considerable length of time, to flood its broad upper bottom and leave deposited over the sandy alluviuin, an eleven foot layer of much finer and blacker material. Since this uplift dammed the Leon enough time has elapsed to en;.Lble this industrious stream to cut a narrow groove across the crest of the uplift deep enough to now expose its banks merely the whole of its old sand alluvium as well as the layer of finer material nbove. Than this, the \\Titer has heard, as yet, no other explanation." For historical purposes we will continue to quote Mr. Bryan. " . even though tho bulk of this faulting along the Balcones System took place during the ice age 4 HISTORY OF CORYELL COUNTY in middle to late Plustocene Time." Mr. Bryan is an eminent archeolog-ist as well as a geologist, and to quote him once more ,vill bring us to our point. "The introduction of Pottery into central Texas was so comparitively recent tl.at the pottery makers in­ variably chose for dwelling places site~ formerly occupied by people who knew not the art." The last quotation from Mr. Bryan convinces us that he is not aware that finely finished flint artifacts, a finely finished "pecked and ground" mono stone and scrap& of pottery havE: been found on the contact of the dark alluvium and the light coarse underlay of soil that was the original material of the Leon bottom. These artifacts collected by the writer and his son indicate that a Neolithic culture existed he1·e previous to the upheavals that produced the Balcones Fault System and was super­ ceded by a richer culture that endured for nges before pottery makers again appeared in the Leon Valley.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Notes and Documents the Texas Frontier in 1850: Dr. Ebenezer Swift
    Notes and Documents The Texas Frontier in 1850: Dr. Ebenezer Swift and the View From Fort Martin Scott by: CALEB COKER AND JANET G. HUMPHREY The Texas Frontier in 1850 was guarded by a line of army forts ranging from Fort Worth to Fort Duncan near Eagle Pass. With the end of the Mexican War, settlers had begun pushing toward the Texas interior, and troops became available to furnish new towns some measure of protection from raiding bands of Indians. 1 Fort Martin bScott, established between the towns of Fredericksburg and Zodiac in December 1848, was one such military post. The letter reproduced here, from the fort's physician, provides a marvelous glimpse of frontier Texas in 1850. It includes candid descriptions of a farm in Austin, life at the fort, and relationships with the local Indians. Native Americans living in the vicinity of Fort Martin Scott belonged to a number of tribes. The least predictable and most feared, however, were the Comanches. White settlements disrupted their wide-ranging lifestyle and threatened the abundant supply of game. In the mid-1840s their primary tactic was to attack settlers in small raiding parties and then vanish, often taking with them horses and other livestock. These hit-and-run assaults terrorized those on the frontier for decades.2 The Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas had purchased 10,000 acres of forested land just north of the Pedernales River on Barron's Creek in December 1845. By the following May, settlers began arriving from New Braunfels at the town site named Fredericksburg.
    [Show full text]
  • The Report of Lieutenant W. H. C. Whiting's Reconaissance of The
    The report of Lieutenant W. H. C. Whiting’s reconnaissance of the wester frontier of Texas 21 Jan 1850 Original Source Document: Congressional Serial Set No. 562 31st Congress, 1st Session, Senate Executive Doc. No. 64, Washington DC, July 24, 1850 pp. 235-250 Digital Source Document: Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=4PFJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA235#v=onepage&q&f=false also Hathi Trust Digital Library http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3983516?urlappend=%3Bseq=287 (scanned at University of California) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hj1lgd?urlappend=%3Bseq=285 (scanned at Harvard University) This PDF document was obtained from the Bosque County Historical Commission. www.bosquechc.org Sis Congress, [ SENATE. ] With Ex. Doc . st Session. N0. 64. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, ENCLOSINC 'i report of Lieutenant W. H. C. Whiting's reconnaissance of the ■western frontier of Texas. June 28, 1850. I Read. July 5, 1850. OrJertd to be printed. War Department, Washington, June 27, 1850. mr: I have the honor to transmit herewith a communication from vain Fred. A. Smith, in charge of the Engineer Department, enclosing topy of the report of the reconnaissance of Lieutenant W. H. C. Whi- k, of the Corps of Engineers, of the western frontier of Texas, with a le of the accompanying map, in reply to a resolution of the Senate of t25th instant calling lor such report. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, GEO. W. CRAWFORD, Secretary of War. Bon. Millard Fillmore, President of the Senate. Engineer Department, Washington, June 26, 1850. Sir: In compliance with the call of the Senate resolution of the 25th stint, herewith I have the honor to enclose a copy of the reconnaissance (Lieutenant W.
    [Show full text]
  • Archaeological Investigations at Fort Martin Scott (41GL52) in Gillespie County, Texas
    Volume 1987 Article 5 1987 Archaeological Investigations at Fort Martin Scott (41GL52) in Gillespie County, Texas Joseph H. Labadie Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita Part of the American Material Culture Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the United States History Commons Tell us how this article helped you. Cite this Record Labadie, Joseph H. (1987) "Archaeological Investigations at Fort Martin Scott (41GL52) in Gillespie County, Texas," Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: Vol. 1987, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.21112/ita.1987.1.5 ISSN: 2475-9333 Available at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol1987/iss1/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Regional Heritage Research at SFA ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State by an authorized editor of SFA ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Archaeological Investigations at Fort Martin Scott (41GL52) in Gillespie County, Texas Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol1987/iss1/5 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT FORT MARTIN SCOTT (41 GL 52) IN GILLESPIE COUNTY, TEXAS Joseph H. Labadie With a contribution by Anne A.
    [Show full text]
  • Report to Congress on the Historic Preservation of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Sites in the United States (P.L
    National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Report to CoCongressngress oonn tthehe HiHistoricstoric PrPreservadoneservation ooff RRevolutionaryevolutionary War anandd War ooff 1812 SiSitestes in the UUnitednited StStatesates Prepared for The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources United States Senate The Committee on Resources United States House of Representatives Prepared by American Battlefield Protection Program National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, DC September 2007 Front Cover Brandywine Battlefield (PA200), position of American forces along Brandywine Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Photo by Chris Heisey. Authorities The Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Historic The American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996, as Preservation Study Act of 1996 amended (P.L. 104-333, Sec. 604; 16 USC 469k). (P.L. 104-333, Section 603; 16 USC 1a-5 Notes). Congress authorized the American Battlefield Protection Congress, concerned that “the historical integrity of Program of the National Park Service to assist citizens, many Revolutionary War sites and War of 1812 sites is at public and private institutions, and governments at all risk,” enacted legislation calling for a study of historic levels in planning, interpreting, and protecting sites where sites associated with the two early American wars. The historic battles were fought on American soil during the purpose of the study was to: “identify Revolutionary War armed conflicts that shaped the growth and development sites and War of 1812 sites, including sites within units of the United States, in order that present and future of the National Park System in existence on the date of generations may learn and gain inspiration from the enactment of this Act [November 12, 1996]; determine the ground where Americans made their ultimate sacrifice.
    [Show full text]
  • Important Post-Civil War Forts in Texas 13
    3l<i MQtd to. 9/' / STANDING IN THE GAP: SUBPOSTS, MINOR POSTS, AND PICKET STATIONS AND THE PACIFICATION OF THE TEXAS FRONTIER, 1866-1886 DISSERTATION Presented to the Graduate Council of the University of North Texas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY By Loyd M. Uglow, B.A., M.A. Denton, Texas May, 1995 3l<i MQtd to. 9/' / STANDING IN THE GAP: SUBPOSTS, MINOR POSTS, AND PICKET STATIONS AND THE PACIFICATION OF THE TEXAS FRONTIER, 1866-1886 DISSERTATION Presented to the Graduate Council of the University of North Texas in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY By Loyd M. Uglow, B.A., M.A. Denton, Texas May, 1995 Uglow, Loyd M. f Standing in the Gap; Subposts. Minor Posts, and Picket Stations and the Pacification of the Texas Frontier. 1866-1886. Doctor of Philosophy (History), May, 1995, 284 pp., 14 figures, reference list, 116 titles. This dissertation describes the various military outposts on the Texas frontier between 1866 and 1886. It is arranged geographically, with each chapter covering a major fort or geographical area and the smaller posts associated with it. Official military records and government reports serve as the primary sources of data. In 1866 when the United States Army returned to the defense of Texas after four years of civil war, the state's frontier lay open to depredations from several Indian tribes and from lawless elements in Mexico. The army responded to those attacks by establishing several lines of major forts to protect the various danger areas of the frontier.
    [Show full text]
  • Fort Martin Scott (41 Gl 52) in Gillespie County, Texas
    ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT FORT MARTIN SCOTT (41 GL 52) IN GILLESPIE COUNTY, TEXAS Joseph H. Labadie With a contribution by Anne A. Fox Center for Archaeological Research The University of Texas at San Antonio® Archaeological Survey Report, No. 169 1987 The following information is provided in accordance with the General Rules of Pract ice and Procedure, Chapter 41.11 (Invest i g at i ve Reports), Texas Antiquities Committee: 1. Type of investigation: archaeological testing; 2. Project name: Fort Martin Scott; 3. County: Gillespie; 4. Principal investigator: Thomas R. Hester; co-principal investigators: Jack D. Eaton and Anne A. Fox; 5. Name and location of sponsoring agency: Fredericksburg Heritage Federation, Fredericksburg, Texas; 6. Texas Antiquities Committee Permit No. 555; 7. Published by the Center for Archaeo]ogical Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio 78285-0658, 1987. A list of publications offered by the Center for Archaeological Research can be obtained by sending $1.00 to the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78285-0658. ABSTRACT During May 24-30, 1986, archaeological investigations at Fort Martin Scott (41 GL 52) were conducted by the Center for Archaeol ogi cal Research at The Un i vers ity of Texas at San Anton i o. The fort was estab 1 i shed by the U. S. Army in 1848. It was the fifth United States fort in Texas. Only ~ne of the fort's original buildings now exists. The foundations for an additional eight structures were identified and documented by this project. The property on which this old fort is located is owned by the City of Fredericksburg.
    [Show full text]
  • Forgotten Soldiers: Burials on the Texas Frontier and Shifting Perceptions of Military Interment
    Volume 2018 Article 30 2018 Forgotten Soldiers: Burials on the Texas Frontier and Shifting Perceptions of Military Interment Anthony Schienschang II Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita Part of the American Material Culture Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the United States History Commons Tell us how this article helped you. Cite this Record Schienschang, Anthony II (2018) "Forgotten Soldiers: Burials on the Texas Frontier and Shifting Perceptions of Military Interment," Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: Vol. 2018, Article 30. https://doi.org/10.21112/ita.2018.1.30 ISSN: 2475-9333 Available at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2018/iss1/30 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Regional Heritage Research at SFA ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State by an authorized editor of SFA ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Forgotten Soldiers: Burials on the Texas Frontier and Shifting Perceptions of Military Interment Licensing Statement Reproduction, posting, transmission, or other distribution or use of the Journal volume, individual article or any portion of the material therein, in any medium, is permitted strictly for personal, non-commercial purposes via a personal-use exemption under a Creative Commons license granted by JTAH.org, Inc.
    [Show full text]
  • By W. M. Sandeen Water Resources Investigations Report 83-4074 Prepared in Cooperation with the Austin, Texas 1983
    EFFECTS OF GROUND-WATER DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH FORT HOOD AREA, CORYELL COUNTY, TEXAS By W. M. Sandeen U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Water Resources Investigations Report 83-4074 Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, FORT WORTH DISTRICT Austin, Texas 1983 CONTENTS Page mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.^ » WOTMOTMWW mm mm mtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm MMMMMMMMVMMOTVOTOTOTMOTOTVOTOTOTVMOTOTOTMMMOTW mm mm fI _»_»»»»__»»__»»_»___.^^^^ .»__...._...._.__.___..__.___-.-.-._-.-..._ ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -^^^^^^^»»^^ ^^.2 Description of forth Fort Hood area 7 Geology of principal aquifer system 9 Hydraulic properties of aquifer system // Ground-water development / 2. Use of ground water /*/ Decline of water levels in wells II Quality of ground water 23 Conclusions 27 Supplemental information 30 ILLUSTRATIONS Page * Figure 1. Map showing location of the North Fort Hood area 4 2. Map showing location of wells and test holes $ 3. Hydrographs showing decline of water levels in wells, 1964-82 n 4. Hydrograph showing the 1967 seasonal fluctuations of water level in well HB-40-35-804 2.O 5. Map showing altitude of approximate water levels in wells screened in the Hensell and Hosston Members of the Travis Peak Formation (of Klemt, Perkins, and Alvarez, 1975), September-November 1982 22 TABLES Table 1. Lithology thickness and water-yielding characteristics of the geologic units 10 2. Production data and specific capacity of selected wells /3 3. Estimated average rates of annual ground-water withdrawals, 1955-81- /5 4. Source and significance of selected constituents and properties commonly reported in water analyses 2.</ 5. Water levels in selected wells in the North Fort Hood area 3/ 6.
    [Show full text]
  • The Frontier” by Roy Betzer, 1978
    Excerpts from “The Frontier” by Roy Betzer, 1978 Early U.S. Military Presence in Texas Fort Martin Scott The purpose of the frontier post was to push forward the line of military protection, allowing the establishment of new communities, farms, ranches, mines, etc. To accomplish these goals, both mounted and non-mounted soldiers would, if at all possible, garrison frontier posts. The soldiers at these posts were to patrol and maintain the security of the area. Once an area was secure and communities established, the smaller posts and camps would be decommissioned and the military line would be pushed further out onto the frontier. Usually this resulted in an increase in white settlers, which in turn resulted in increased Indian raids followed by a period of increased troop movements to the new frontier posts. A viscous cycle condoned in the 18305 by the executive branch of the Government of the United States of America in opposition to a ruling of the judicial branch. This constant movement of the line of military posts was a constant reminder to the Native American Indian that their world was being squeezed into an ever smaller and more restricted space. After the War of 1812, the U.S. Army had rid itself of mounted troops saying they were too costly to maintain. Then in the early 1830s, with the prosecution of the Seminole Campaigns, the Army found they needed mounted troops and they raised, with the approval of Congress and the Commander in Chief Andrew Jackson, a regiment of dragoons, and within a few more years a second regiment of dragoons.
    [Show full text]
  • Fort 'Orth, Texas
    fio. RESTORATION AND .TENSION OF FEDERAL FORTS IN THE SOUTh ST FROL 1865 TO 188& TIEI Presented to the Graduate Council of the North Texas State Teachers College in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MAr 0F AJT2 By Alice Bell Bennett, B.A. Fort 'orth, Texas August, 1941 ii '150 TABLE OF COTENTS Page iv Chapter I. FED2IaL INDIAN PLICY IN TUE OUHE2 BEFR{$ 1865--w--------------------- - 1 I *FEDERLt iIDIa POLICY IN OKLAHOMA AFTER THE CIVILAR-----------------a 9 III. FEDERAL INDIAT CONTROL IN T AS-------- 24 IV* Y OPERATION IN NEW E1iICO, ARIZO , ATND CALIFORNIA------------- V. C NCLUS I N----------------------------- 109 iii PREFACE This thesis is an attempt to protray the part the forts of the Southwest had in developing the Federal Indian Policy in that region from 1865 to 1885. It is that period in our nation's history when our army was trying to protect our settlers on the western frontier from the savage Indian, marauding Mexican, and renegade white. Perhaps some of the soldiers in tbe United States army of this period were not what they could have been, but it is the author's wish that all who read these pages shall see the soldier the fearless, courageous, and loyal defender of our country's flag that he was. The story of this thesis begins with the Indian sit- uation in the Southwest at the close of the Civil War and closes when the last wild tribe submitted to the authority of the government. The work of the army pushed the Red frontier back from the West to meet the East that the nation might stretch peacefully from ocean to ocean.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Report of the Secretary of War 1851
    Annual Report of the Secretary of War (1851) 29 Nov 1851 Original Source Document: United States Congressional Serial Set 634 (1851/52) 32d Congress, 1st Session, House Executive Document No. 2, Part I, Washington DC, Digital Source Document: Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=840FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Hathi Trust Digital Library http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3983581 (scanned at University of California) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnwtgf (scanned at Harvard University) Contained in this PDF: Pages Contents 105-116 Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 29 Nov 1851 117-124 I. Papers respecting military and Indian affairs in Texas 1. Instructions to General P. F. Smith, Washington DC, 30 Apr 1851 To: General Persifer P. Smith, Commanding Eighth Military Department From: C. M. Conrad, Secretary of War 2. Report of Colonel S. Cooper, Fort Graham TX, 14 Jun 1851 To: Major General Roger Jones, Adjutant General, U. S. Army, Washington DC From: S. Cooper, Brevet Col. Asst. Adjutant General and acting Inspector 3. Report of Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Hardee, Austin TX, 29 Aug 1851 To: Major George Deas, Assistant Adjutant General, San Antonio TX From: W. J. Hardee, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel 161-165 VI. Report of the General-in-Chief, 21 Nov 1851 191-206 VI. Report of the General-in-Chief, Organization of the Army, D. Position and distribution of the Troops in the Western Division 216-226 VII. Report of the Quartermaster General Jessup 254-288 VII. Report of the Quartermaster General Jessup, C. Operations of the Quartermaster’s Department at San Antonio, Texas Fort Worth (p.270) Fort Graham (p.271) Austin (p.273) Fort Gates (p.274) Fort Croghan (p.275) The Annual Report of the Secretary of War (1851) can also be found as a Senate document in United States Congressional Serial Set 611 (1851/52) 32d Congress, 1st Session, Senate Executive Document No.
    [Show full text]
  • COMMEMORATIVE CHISHOLM. TRAIL Historical SITES
    ' . .. ; APPENDIX B COMMEMORATIVE CHISHOLM. TRAIL HiSTORICAL SITES ..... ; . San Antonio, Texas: Buckhorn uaii ·~f· Hor~~- contains-hund.red.8" of.· horns from-the~ Longhorn . and other wil'a. game. Alamo Museum, contains a number of artifacts related to the cattle trail era. , ·s&n Marcos, Texas: Chisholm Trail Historical Marker on the courthoµs~ lawn. ·. Austin, Texas: Barker Texas History Collection. Texas Memorial Museum. Texas Cowboy Statue on the Capitol grounds. Salado, Texas: Central Texas Area Museum. · Belton, Texa~: Fort Griffin Historical Marker southwest of Belton. \. .. Gatesville, Texas: .· Traces of Fort Gates, provided protection and supplies to drovers. Buckhorn Museum. Lake Whitney, Texas: Fort Graham His~orical Marker. ·. ·: 39 • ... ; . .. :. : I • • i 4 T t Cleburne, Texas: Laylands' Museum ~ . Rio Vista, Texas: Historical marker depicting trail camp and guide point. Historical marker honoring Jesse Chisholm. Decatur, Texas: Chisholm Trail Historical Marker. Chisholm.Trail cattle crossing marker. Ringsgold, Texas: Marker commemorating two feeder branches of the Chisholm Trail and other trails. Nocona, Texas: Marker on Red River indicating location of Red River Station, a major crossing and supply point on the·Trail. Saint Jo, Texas: Stonewall Saloon Museum. Waurika, Oklahoma: Chisholm Trail Museum. Chisholm Trail Historical Marker. Tuttle, Oklahoma: · Chish~lm Trail Historical Marker.' Yukon, Oklahoma: Chisholm Trail Historical Marker. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: National Cowboy Ball of Fame. 40 ... Bison, Oklahoma: Chisholm Trail Historical Marker. Enid 1 Oklahoma: Government Springs .~~. Enid . Municipal Park. Wellington, Kansas: Chisholm Trail Museum. Wichita, Kansas: Historic Wichita Cowtown. Abilene, Kansas: 01~ Abilene ~own .•. RELATED TO THE CATTLE DRIVING PERIOD San.Antonio, Texas: . Steves Homesteaq,.exam~ie of victorian Man~ion which was a .fashion­ able German residence in the 1870's.
    [Show full text]