TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845
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Houston "Do you want the line to start at the Comanche Peak on the Brazos?" Chief "No. I want it to start at Sandy Creek, 5 leagues above the Falls of the Brazos." Houston "I have always heard that you ·wanted it to start at the Comanche Peak or the mouth of Noland's River, and then to run on above Little River and above Bryants, through the prairies on to the Rio Grande, why do you now wish the line to come below?" Chief "Who told you that was our wish?" Houston "The letter of Conner and Watson, containing your talk, said so, the line was to run from Red River, between the Cross Timbers to the Comanche Peak and on to the Rio Grande." Chief "We never said so; the paper lied; we then said what I now say. The Great Spirit sees and knows I speak the truth. I want the line to run as I have said, it is a good country and has good grass, and I want to live by the white people." Houston "We are going to establish a Trading House on No- lands River and send up goods, and we will have a gun smith there to repair your guns, and corn shall be raised for to have at our councils." Chief "I want the Trading House to remain where it is; and I want my friends, these other Indians, to settle on the line and raise corn and I can often come down among them. I am like the bird flying through the air. I can travel and am always traveling and can easily come down here. I want the Trading House to remain where it is and I will come to it." Houston "If the line should start at the place you speak of how would it run? Chief "On the lower edge of the lower Cross Timbers to Red River." Houston Chief tonio." "How on West?" "Through the prairie, above Little River, to San An- Houston "The line, as before agreed on runs from the Co- manche Peak, between the Cross Timbers to Red River. The line was made at a Treaty that was signed by Red Bear; when Col' Williams, Messrs Durst and Stroud went over to Red River, then Red Bear wished the line to be high up, as he did not wish to come near the whites.
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