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Frontier Days of Texas Indians Raid in Southwest Texas
A detailed reminiscence by Captain A J Lowell recounts 1859 raids below the Frio in Uvalde County. Settlers from Isbell ranch, including John Oakey and Claire Davenport, pursued the Comanche with U S soldiers from Fort Inge, surviving heavy near misses and several casualties, notably Blackhawk the warrior. The account also notes later Bosque and Erath county raids with massacres of families, captivity of a boy, and no Indians killed in many engagements.
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Texas
A. J. Lowell
Uvalde County
J. C. Isbell
Frio
Isbell Ranch
United States
Fort Inge
Ross Kennedy
Tom Farrow
Dr. Isbell
James Davenport
Emery Givens
John Daugherty
Tom Wall
Henry Courtney
John Cook
Richard Ware
Claire Davenport
Blanco Creek
John Leakey
S@binal
Postoak
Bay
Daugherty
Leakey
Cook
Courtney
Kennedy
Blackhawk
Rabb
Mr. Renfrew
R. B. Barry
Hinson Roberts
Johnson Boy
Barry
Captain Barry
Bosque
Erath
North Bosque
Wood
Lemly
Spring Creek
Barry Ranch
Knight
Neill’s Creek
Bell County