Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. IV

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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916

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they claim our part of Texas as their own; and we have to give up our old homes. Your Excelency may make any use of this communication if it should answer to further our cause and I may also be proper to state that U.S. Government Officers will not say that this comes from a man who wants to censure the General Government out of malice or disloyalty I think that I am well known for that. I speak from a sad experience, the remains of my brother who was brutally murdered by those savages at my sheep ranche in this county are not yet mouldered, and just before I dispatched this letter I am informed that my son Walter and a Mexican hand fell in with the Indians at the Middle pronge of the Verde Creek the night before last and their fate is as yet unknown. I hasten for home

Your Excelency Most Obedient Servant H. I. RICHARDS Co. Judge M. Co.

[Endorsed] Bexar County

March 19th 1867 County Judge Report of Indian Raids

No. 124 LETTER FROM J. W. THROCKMORTON TO D. R. GURLEY State of Texas

Executive Department Austin-March 25th 67

Col. Davis Gurley Adj't Genl.

Waco. Texas

Dear Col.

Yours of 18th inst was recd by last mail-

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