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Cowboys and Comanches on Elbowed Texas Trails
A Texas 1870s cattle drive memoir recounts a perilous Lang ago journey from Llano to New Mexico. The narrator describes clashes with Comanches, horse drives, and early frontier life, detailing pivotal events at Thorpe Springs Morgan’s Mill Elm Creek and Flat Top Ranch along with loyal allies and losses.
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Confederacy
Alabama
Texas
South
Thorpe Springs
D Cantrell
Morgan’s Mill
J. B. Hightower
Father
Bluffdale
Jim Counts
John Williamson
Andy Hunter
John Middleton
Robertson’s Creek
Arch Deaver
Old Man Wire
New Mexico
Flat Top Ranch
Elm Creek
Concho River
R. K. Wylie
Sammie Coggin
Rich’ Coffey
Sally
Belle
John
Bill
Fogg
Wylie
Coggin
Sam Coggin
Moodie
Coggin National Bank
Brownwood
Mother
Llano
California
Charlie Price
Granbury
Holmes Creek
Trickham
Earle Brown
Stephens County
Brown
Earle
Jordan
Ferguson
Susan