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RANDADO. J. Will Falvella in San Antonio Express,
Aug. 12, 1923.
RAZOR. Dallas News, June 1, 1924.
SCARY LANE. Paul Morgan, San Marcos, Texas.
SNYDER. See Hide Town.
SOUR LAKE. Houston Post, July 2, 1903.
SQUAW CREEK. History of Hood County, by Thomas
T. Ewell, Granbury, Texas, 1895, pp. 20-21.
STAKED PLAINS. Early Western Travels, edited by
Reuben G. Twaites, Vol. XIV, p. 20; Thirty
Years of Army Life on the Border, by R. B. Marcy,
New York, 1866, p. 27; Castafieda's Narrative of
the Expedition of Coronado, Winship's transla-
tion, Pt. I, Chap. XIX, Pt. III, Chap. VIII; The
Gilded Man, by A. F. Bandelier, New York, 1893,
p. 220; Commerce of the Prairies, by Josiah Gregg,
New York, 1844, Vol. II, p. 181; Exploration of
the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852,
by R. B. Marcy, Washington, 1854, p. 100; report
of Captain John Pope to the Sec. of War on
A Route for the Pacific Railroad ... from Red
River to the Rio Grande, Washington, D. C.,
1854, Chap. II; Notes through Unexplored Texas
... 1854, by W. B. Parker, Philadelphia, 1856,
p. 161; Texas, by Jacob de Cordova, Philadelphia,
1858, pp. 43-44; Beyond the Mississippi, by Albert
D. Richardson, Hartford, Conn., 1867, p. 232;
Letters from the Frontiers, by George A. McCall,
Philadelphia, 1868, p. 430; Texas Rural Register
and Immigrants' Handbook, Houston, Texas,
1875, p. 34; A Pictorial History of Texas, by
Homer S. Thrall, St. Louis, 1878, p. 40; "Report
on the Geography... of Llano Estacado or Staked
Plains," by W. F. Cummins, in Third Annual
Report of the Geological Survey of Texas, 1891,
Austin, Texas, 1892, pp. 129-131; A Standard
History of Oklahoma, by Joseph B. Thoburn,
1916, Vol. I, p. 18; Buffalo Days, by Homer D.
Wheeler, Indianapolis, 1925, p. 237; Letters and76
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Dobie, J. Frank. Straight Texas, book, 1966; Hatboro, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67658/m1/88/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.