This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...to every call of his neighbors to repel the Indian advance, and protect the settlers and their property from the merciless rapacity of the red skins. As late as 1859, S. E. Holland, General A. R. Johnson, J. D. McFarland, Dave Hunter and William McGill had a fight with the Indians within sight of the town of Burnet, in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...to every call of his neighbors to repel the Indian advance, and protect the settlers and their property from the merciless rapacity of the red skins. As late as 1859, S. E. Holland, General A. R. Johnson, J. D. McFarland, Dave Hunter and William McGill had a fight with the Indians within sight of the town of Burnet, in which three indians were killed and the rest driven off. Another fight occurred near Burnet, in 1860, between eight white men and fourteen Indians. The whites were S. E. Holland, Robert Flippin, John Moore, Albert Watts, Major Eubanks, and three others, in which two Indians were killed, and the whites captured three horses and outfits. In 1864, Captain Holland volunteered to go to Lampasas to repel an Indian invasion, with seven other men. Near the Twin Sister Mountains, they encountered the Indians, and after a running fight, captured fifty-five head of horses, and the outfit of the Indians. In 1869, December 6th, nine Indians out of a bunch of twentyone, pursued and commenced shooting at him. He fired four shots at them, and turned on them with a six-shooter, and protected a lot of negroes. This bunch of Indians had killed eleven people, including the entire Whitlock family, women and children, and burned their houses. At one time there was a company of counterfeiters on the Colorado river, and they had their die fixed on a pecan log. Some of them were arrested and brought to trial, but none but negro evidence could be obtained, and they were acquitted. But they were notified by Captain Holland and others to leave the county, and they went, without counting upon the order of their going. Burnet county polled ninety-two majority against the ordinance of secession, and there were a number of good men, Union men, in the county. These men were ...
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