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Frontier Days of Texas Ranger and Indian Fights
A 1860s frontier tale recounts Capt Riley Woods’s San Saba county Rangers pursuing bands of Indians along the San Saba river at Peg Leg crossing and near Richland Springs. In one clash an Indian archer held off multiple rangers until Poe and others exposed themselves, then Poe was fatally wounded. Other incidents tell of a man named Hall killed near Round Mountain, a Youngblood family attack on Grape creek with a brave mother repelling Indians, and Comanches driven from a Cedar brake after a mill area skirmish.
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Peg Leg Crossing
San Saba River
Riley Woods
San Saba County
Richland Springs
Samuel Fessenden
Jesse Poe
Sam Fessenden
Poe
Fessenden
Poe Maare
Brady City
McCulloch County
Mr. Hall
Richland Creek
San Saba
Round Mountain
Jimmy
Harvey Creek
Hall
Pick Duncan
de Buss
Texas
Cypress Creek
Frio Canyon
Malcolm van Pelt
Hale
Tucker
Frank C. Hilburn
Tom Wall
W. H. Morris
Frank Hilburn
Tom
Wall
Frio
Tom Farrow
William Thacker
Chaparal
Moris