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Frontier Fort Siege and Indian Attacks in 1840 Texas
The account recalls Kinney Fort near Brush Creek north of Austin where Indians attacked in August 1840. Joseph Weeks warned settlers. fifty men rode to aid, but Kinney and his small garrison repelled the assault. The narrative also details the 1842 deaths of James Boyce and the Pole Clubz Polander killed in a separate ambush, plus frontier exploration and Lipan- Comanche tensions around Travis County.
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Kinney
Austin
Polander
James Boyce
Thomas Kinney
Texas
Bastrop County
Brush Creek
Brushy Cove
Mr. Kinney
Joseph Weeks
Colorado
Judge English
Major Barker
John
Denton
James
Baker
Fort English
Trinity River
Collin
Dallas
Trinity Country
Clubz
Travis County
Boyce
Gilleland Creek
Walnut Creek
Colorado Valley
Bio Grande
Mexico