The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, July 1945 - April, 1946 Page: 338
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338 Southwestern Historical Quarterly
the Texas Legislature, and can be seen any day on the avenue walking
from his hotel to the State House, and ten to one you do not meet Ben
Thompson (Fighting Ben) or Billie Thompson (Daring Bill) on the same
street. ...
Clown you will meet in San Antonio; everybody knows him by that
name, and he is probably the only man on the continent who can say he
whipped and drove off fifteen Indians, killing eleven of them single-
handed . .
Jack Hodge died at White Sulphur Springs, Arkansas in consequence
of the poisoned arrow wound received in the Nueces River fight....
Joe G. Booth (Reckless Joe) does business in Dallas, Texas but lives
in Terrell, an adjoining town, where, if you choose to go to his cottage,
you will be well treated by Mrs. Booth-none other but our friend, Martha
Wells, or Rely; and a little Reckless Joe will show you how to ride a
mustang, and two young fair Relys will gather wild flowers from the
prairies for you . . .
Tom Clark was killed in the public market in San Antonio shortly after
returning from the Rio Grande by two desperadoes, but both were shot
through the heart after Tom received his mortal stab. He died with his
hands in mine, and as I closed his eyes I knew that one of my best friends
on earth was dead. . . .
Jim Ransom is in New Mexico. Jim Bearfield ranches it on the Medina
River .. .
Big-Foot Wallace meanders about up and down the Nueces, or San
Miguel, catching a mustang, or knocking a deer over, as he chooses; but
his cat died from the wounds received in the Indian surprise-party, there
being no one to take proper care of her when Big-Foot went to the big
Cortina scrape . . .
Kate Luby is now in Corpus Christi; teaching language and music to
Texan girls, and takes great pride in her three sons, who are posted in
all prairie knowledge . . .
John G. Moore lives in Terrell, Texas, and owns thousands of acres
of land, and more stock than he can estimate . . .
Gen. Juan N. Cortina, once the bandit chief, accepted the cross of the
Legion of Honor, through Emperor Maximilian, from Napoleon III, and
afterwards turned over his numerous forces to Juarez. In his pretended
submission to the French, he escaped the Scylla of Gen. Mejia's Legion,
by which he was hemmed in in Matamoras, and the Charybdis of the
many "Gringoes" or Americans who were watching for him on the other
side of the Rio Grande. ....
His release from the military prison of Vera Cruz, on $15,000 bail,
last spring, is fresh in the memory of all, and its injustice maddening
to Texans. ....
His vagrant followers, even now, are lurking in the chaparrals, and
not a week passes without the spilling of blood between Gringoes and
Greasers. . .
Clay Wells is in the Texas lunatic asylum, having never recovered
from the blow given with the war club on the Nueces. . .
Bill George (Texas Bill) is sheriff in Lancaster, Texas. . .
Kit Carson, Jr. is around among us. . .
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