Bøger af Hilory G Bedford

This book gives a graphic portrayal of frontier life in Texas with marauding Comanche and Kiowa Indian tribes. Replete with many stories of Indian raids and murders, it is a classic in providing the pioneer's point of view on the unfriendly Indian tribes in the nineteenth century. Learn about Cynthia Ann Parker, how she was abducted by Indians, became the wife of a famous Indian chief and mother of the another famous chief, and was later recaptured. Read about the betrayal by the Comanches that led to the famous Council House fight in San Antonio. Follow the exciting stories of the brave pioneers who had many escapes, and suffered many losses as well.

Forty-three true stories of Indian troubles on the Texas frontier, compiled and published originally by Mr. Hilory Bedford in 1905. At that time he had lived fifty-four years in Texas, most of them on the frontier. He was an eyewitness and participant in many of the heartbreaking and terrifying events. The rest he got straight from the mouths of those who were there or from their surviving kin. From the scalping of Josiah Wilbarger to the raid on Parker's Fort, it is here in disturbing detail, available for the first time in more than a century.