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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916
get out fare enough to see what has been done by the Indians as well as whites that is cooperating with them no news of Int. in this Country I hope to hear from you soon Yours Truly
T. W. THOMAS
[Endoned] August 3rd 1866 6000 cattle drive
from Jack & Wise Counties by Indians
No. 75
LETTER FROM LAMPASAS CITIZENS TO SENATORS BURNEY AND COOLEY Lampasas Aug 15/66 Senators Burney, Cooley et al ) ) Texas Legislature ) Mr Perry Townsend, to whose integrity and veracity every citi- zen of this county will testify, is just in from Fort Chadbourne, in the vicinity of which he resides and reports, that on the second of August, a party of four men, from whom the Indians had taken horses, being in pursuit of them, came ui:on a body of twelve Indians driving off some five hundred head of cattle and thirty horses. The Indians after lingering, some time to ascertain the strength of the party, cut out the horses and drove them off, leaving the cattle. The four men then continued on to meet another party of stock hunters, sixteen miles above the mouth of the Concho, crossing three large trails of stock going out, and finding that the cattle in that section of country were nearly all driven out. Another party of Indians took Eleven head of horses from stock men on the Brady, the same week. This is one more to the long list of depredations that have been committed on the frontier within the past fifteen months, and which are now of almost daily occurence. It is not our wish to exagerate, the reality is bad enough. It will be observed that these c:epredations are now extended to Cattle, and not confined, mostly, as hereto fore to hor~cs.- This shov, 1 s the audacity of the parties, and the impunity with which they expect to carry on their robberies. This county used to count its horses by
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