Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas
Pioneer Biographies, Ranger Expeditions, Captivity Narratives, and Borderlands ConflictBy A. J Sowell
Length34h 5m
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A. J. Sowell's *Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas* is a documentary history of the frontier communities, conflicts, and personalities that shaped nineteenth-century Texas. Combining biographical sketches, reminiscence, local tradition, and episodes of Indian warfare, Sowell presents settlement as a lived experience marked by danger, mobility, kinship, and improvisation. His prose is direct and anecdotal rather than formally analytical, yet its cumulative detail gives the work the texture of an oral archive. Situated within the late-nineteenth-century tradition of Texas frontier writing, the book preserves the perspectives and legends through which former settlers, scouts, and fighters understood their past, while also revealing the selective memory and cultural assumptions of that tradition. Sowell (1853–1912) was a Texas writer, newspaper man, and participant-observer of the state's post-frontier culture. Familiar with residents whose lives he recorded, he gathered stories from veterans, settlers, and local witnesses at a moment when the older border world was rapidly disappearing. His interest was therefore both historical and commemorative: to rescue names, incidents, and community memories from oblivion and to honor the endurance of those who inhabited contested territory. This volume will reward readers of Texas history, western studies, Indigenous-borderlands scholarship, and folklore. It is especially valuable when read critically, alongside Native perspectives and modern historical research, but its firsthand atmosphere and wealth of otherwise elusive testimony make it an indispensable source for understanding how Southwest Texas remembered its formative frontier decades.
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GenreHistory
Length34 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 14, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875 to 1881 (Annotated)
26John Reinhart.
2Preface.
27Captain H. J. Richarz.
3Benjamin F. Highsmith.
28Gideon Thompson.
4Captain John Tom.
29Captain Malcolm Van Pelt.
5Captain James W. Winters.
30Jack Miller.
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6Mrs. Hannah Berry.
31August Rothe.
7“Big Foot” Wallace.
32J. W. Gardner.
8Mrs. Sarah J. Kinchaloe.
33Jesse Lawhon Killed by Indians.
9Nichalus Haby.
34Early Settlers of Atascosa County.
10Henry Castro.
35Mrs. R. D. Kennedy.
11A. J. Davenport.
36Joseph M. Van Pelt.
12Joseph Conrads.
37Indian Fight on Dove Creek.
13Castro’s Diary. Part I.
38A Frontier Tragedy.
14Castro’s Diary. Part II.
39Fight with Indians and Rangers.
15Castro’s Diary. Part III.
40Incidents of Frontier Life.
16Castroville Founded.
41Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of D’Hanis.
17Joseph Burrell.
42Richard M. Ware.
18Incident of Ranger Life.
43Aunt Mary Davenport.
19Louis Haller.
44J. A. Boales.
20Judge Bernhard Brucks.
45F. G. Tinsley.
21Incident in the Life of Col. J. C. Carr.
46Thomas Galbreath.
22John L. Mann.
47Jack Hays.
23Robert Watson.
48Mrs. M. A. Binnion.
24Herbert Weynand.
49Capture of Matilda Lockhart and the Putnam Children by Indians.
25John W. Patterson.
50Rev. E. A. Briggs.
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