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Mlany pounds are to be found scattered throughout eastern
Texns, but historians have never definitely determined the
identity of their builders. The principal ones are found
near Alto, in Cherokee County, about forty miles south of
the Smith County line. These mounds around Alto were mentioned
by the explorer Mezieres, who passed along the Camino
Real, or King's Highway, on the Neches River, in 1779, on
his way to a Nabedoche village. This explorer stated that
the mounds were raised by the remote ancestors of the natives
of this locality in order to build temples on their tops.9
The Texa s Aiaanac of 1941-1942 makes the following statement:
The most productive archaeological evidences
probably hsve been the Indian Mounds found in many
points in Northeast and East mexas, and on the lower
Coastal Plains. From these h'. ve been taker largely
under the direction of Professor Pierce, evidences
of varied and, in places, relatively advanced cultures.
Much of the life habits and migration of prehistoric
man has been ascertained by these means. Prom the
kitchen middens of a wide area in the central portion
of the St.te, and from the rock-shelters in Southwest
Texas, have been taken similar evidences, iiniciting
the prehistoric cultures of this wide area.0
The evrly French and Spanish explorers came it contact
with the Tejvs and Cacdo Indians, who occupied the forest
lands between the 1Neches and the Sabine Rivers. These tribes
v;ere the most powerful and the most highly civilized of the
Indian tribes between the Mississippi snd the Tio Grande.11
9Woldert, o.- cit., p. 74.
3]o'Texas Almanac, 1941-1943, p. 38.
3lGeorge L. Crocket, Two Centuries in East Texas, p. 4.
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Ward, William R. A History of Smith County, Texas, book, May 1944; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46834/m1/12/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .