Texas Her Stories: An Historical Reader for the Grades
Texas Her Stories: An Historical Reader for the Grades
Katie Daffan
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Having attained the purpose of his visit nothing could persuade him from returning to his red-skinned friends who anx- iously waited for him. Sam Houston had watched with quiet interest the struggle being made by the Americans to oc- cupy Texas, and he sympathized deeply with the suffering of his fellow men. The Comanche In- dians were feared by the whites and all of the In- dian tribes. They were very powerful and so hos- tile to every foe that emigration of the other tribes was made impossibl...e. It was decided that a treaty of peace must be secured, for that and that alone would protect emigration. General Jackson had re- quested Houston to confer with the Comanches and to advise them to send a delegation to Fort Gibson on the Arkansas river, with a purpose of later visit- Measuring Deer Tracks 69 ing Washington City. The Choctaws, Chickasaws and Creeks all feared the Comanches. On the first day of December, 1832, Houston, with a few companions left his Indian home in Arkansas and started through the wilderness for Fort Towson.
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