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198 SIXTY YEARS IN TEXAS.
in the night and notified all of them, and about 9
or 10 o'clock the next day they came into our camp.
But they said the line of their territory was only a
few miles, and they could not go to the Texas line
without pay. I offered them fifty dollars to go with
us and see us over Red River, and they agreed to it,
and we took up the line of march again, and when
we got in a few miles of Red River we saw our
bushwhacking friends, and three other men with
them. They intended to attack us before we got into
Texas, and had selected a suitable place, not knowing
we had employed a guard. We had seventeen
men heavily armed, and we would have given them
the best we had in our shop if they had attacked
us. Our guard crossed over the river with us, and
camped with us that night in Texas, and in the
morning they left us, and we went on our way rejoicing.
I will go back to the first of our journey. We met
some Federal soldiers, and they had been ordered
to burn their blankets, and a man by the name of
King, a Texas man, had bought twenty-one blankets
for 50 cents apiece and tied them in a bundle and
hid them, and when he met our wagons he said he
would give me $5.00 if I would haul them to Fort
Gibson. I did so, and he paid me. It was at night
he gave me the money, and he gave me two $5.00
bills stuck together, and I did not notice it until the
next day. He said his family lived near the road
not far from where Denison now stands, and he said
it would be a great favor to him if I would stop and
tell his wife that he was well and hoped to be discharged
soon, and they might expect him home any
time. As I had $5.00 of his money I thought I would
call and see his wife and give it to her. My wife
and I drove up to the house, and several women
came out, and I inquired for Mrs. King, and she was
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Jackson, George. Sixty years in Texas, book, 1908; Dallas, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20205/m1/212/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.