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Battle Creek, Texas – Where Surveyors Fought Like SoldiersBy Donna Gholson Cook | Wild West | 3 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post The figure 25 does not count Love and Jackson and is correct if 18 surveyors died and seven escaped. Some accounts suggest fewer surveyors were involved and only 17 died. In any case, it is doubtful that even trained soldiers would have fared much better against those horrible odds. Subscribe Today
Donna Gholson Cook is a sixth-generation Texan, an associate member of Western Writers of America and the author of Gholson Road: Revolutionaries and Texas Rangers (2003). For further reading, see “Walter P. Lane’s Account of the Fight Between a Surveying Party and a Band of Kickapoo Indians on Richland (Battle) Creek in Navarro County,” in Volume XVI of Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas, compiled and edited by Malcolm D. McLean. Pages: 1 2 3 4 5Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
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3 Comments to “Battle Creek, Texas – Where Surveyors Fought Like Soldiers”
As always, an amazing and insightful story.
By Linda E on Oct 29, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I HAVE BEEN READING UP ON THE KICKAPOO INDIANS SINCE
MY GRANDFATHER WAS BORN IN THE KICKAPOO TOWN OF
MUZQUIZ LAND WHICH WAS GIVING TO THE KICKAPOO BY
THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT . MY GRANDFATHER DIED IN 1968
AND HE WAS ABOUT 86-88 YEARS OLD A @ THAT TIME AND
AS A BOY OF 6 OR 8 YRS OF AGE HE TOLD ME THAT HE HAD
INDIAN BLOOD , WHEN I ASKED HIM HOW COME HE NEVER
SHAVED LIKE MY DAD DID, AND TOLD ME WHERE HE WAS
BORN. HE NEVER TALKED ABOUT HIS FAMILY LEFT BACK
IN MEXICO HE WOULD JUST SAY THAT THEY WERE ALL GONE
I AM 66 YRS OLD NOW AND WISH I KNEW MORE ABOUT HIS
GROWING UP IN MUZQUIZ . AND ANY FAMILY BY THEIR LAST
NAME OF ( AGUERO ) ANY ONE OUT THER I WONDER ,??
By JOHNNY GONZALES on Oct 30, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Your Opinion Pole is not fair.
You put Alexander the great as an ancient commander.
Which I believe he was one of the best, but you forgot all about Kooroush of Iran that before Alexander
Conquered the whole world at the time.
If you talking about ancient he was the best.
Regards, Meelly
By Meelly Moussighi on Mar 4, 2009 at 4:10 pm