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Hog Creek Indian Fight Recalled by Comanche County Men
Fragment recounts frontier action in Brown County where about 30 Indians attacked a wagon train at Mustang water hole. Frank Brown George Wallace and B Grissom joined John Roch as fighting men used wheat sacks as a barricade. Roch was wounded. A pursuing posse tracked the Indians into Hog Mountain and Brown County where several assailants were killed and others wounded before the retreat.
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Jesse Dickerson
Brown County
Comanche County
Hog Creek
Frank Brown
George Wallace
B. Grissom
Brown
Wallace
Roc
Roch
C. C. Campbell
Mountain Creek
Posse
Ve Cunningham
D. H. Cunningham
Joe J. Cunningham
Joel Nabors
Freeman Clark
Joe Gurley
J. M. Millican
Ed Roch
Lark Stone
Jesse Johnson
Sam Powers
John Stevens
Dan Pinkard
Wm. Ross
J. M. Tunnnell
Thomas Jones
Ike Ward
John Albino
Wm. Cox
H. —Orthcutt
Wm. McAdams
Mr. Gardiner
Cunningham
Dry Blanket Creek
Hog Mountain
Dave Cunningham
Clark
Johan Alaino
Blanket