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Indian agent : Peter Ellis Bean in Mexican Texas / Jack Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Jack, 1941-2006.
- Series:
- Canseco-Keck history series ; no. 6.
- Canseco-Keck history series ; no. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bean, Peter Ellis, 1783-1846.
- Bean, Peter Ellis.
- Indian agents--Texas--Biography.
- Indian agents.
- Indians of North America--Texas--Government relations.
- Indians of North America.
- Texas--History--To 1846.
- Texas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- GETTING A SPEAR THROUGH HIS THIGH IN A HAND TO HAND BATTLE WITH A RENEGADE INDIAN, ARMY SCOUT, TOM COLTER WAS UNABLE TO RIDE AND WAS ASSIGNED TO HERD THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY CAPTIVE INDIANS TO A DESIGNATED SITE ON WHICH TO ESTABLISH A RESERVATION HE ALSO WAS CHARGED WITH KEEPING THEM ON THE RESERVATION WITH ONLY THIRTY SOLDIERS, GET THEM HOUSED BEFORE WINTER, AND BE PREPARED TO WITHSTAND ANOTHER RAID BY THE INFAMOUS BROKEN NOSE AND HIS RENEGADES.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-413) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-5049-0129-0
- 1-299-05297-5
- 1-60344-612-5
- OCLC:
- 656466928
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