Sixty years in Texas Page: 184 of 398
5 p. l., 384 p., incl. illus., plates, ports. front. (port.) 23 cm.View a full description of this book.
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170 SIXTY YEARS IN TEXAS.
Oh, the horrors here in Texas
That these early settlers tellIt
will cause your hair to stand on end,
And make you thing of h-.
The Comanches once declared for peace,
And the council house was filled,
But the program was not understood,
And every chief was killed.
The Comanches then went wild again.
And laid many a vicious plan,
And stole their wives and children
And scalped many a butchered man.
Oh! the awful bloody battles
Between the white and red,
The wounded and the scalped,
And the dying and the dead!
But the white men were victorious,
And drove the Indians from the land,
Over the Western wilderness
And across the Rio Grande.
The privations and the hardships
Of these hardy, fearless men
Can never be described
By language, word or pen.
(The following verses may be a little overdrawn.)
The hog then known in Texas
Was a self-supporting grazer,
With a nose as long as a walking stick,
And a back just like a razor.
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Jackson, George. Sixty years in Texas, book, 1908; Dallas, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20205/m1/184/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.