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20. John Harvey biographical sketch, Kemp Papers; Jenkins, Burleson, 258.
21. John H. Moore report in Austin City Gazette, November 11, 1840; Webb, The Texas Rangers, 45; Robinson, The Men Who Wear the Star, 59; Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 86–87; Pierce, Army, 199–200; Brown, Indian Wars, 83.
22. Brown, Indian Wars, 83–84; Anderson, The Conquest of Texas, 190–91; Telegraph and Texas Register, September 3, 1840, and November 18, 1840, 2; Brice, The Great Comanche Raid, 62–63.
23. Pierce, Army, 201; Brice, The Great Comanche Raid, 56–57.
19. CAPTAIN DEVIL JACK
1. Pierce, Army, 204–7; McLean, Papers, XVIII:146; Nance, After San Jacinto, 97; McLeod to Archer, December 17, 1840, in Journals of the House of Representatives: Fifth Congress, Appendix, 376.
2. Gammell, Laws of Texas, II:475–76; Nance, After San Jacinto, 399.
3. Greer, Texas Ranger, 37–40; Caperton, “Sketch of Colonel John C. Hays,” 8–9.
4. Caperton, “Sketch of Colonel John C. Hays,” 9–10; Webb, The Texas Rangers, 85.
5. Hays to Lamar in Gulick, Lamar Papers, IV:232.
6. Nance, After San Jacinto, 402–3.
7. Ibid., 408–10; Journals of the Sixth Congress, Republic of Texas, III:411–12.
8. Hays to Lamar in Gulick, Lamar Papers, IV:232; Buquor, “An Episode of 1841,” from Floresville Chronicle, in Ford, “Memoirs,” 243–47.
9. Hays to Lamar in Gulick, Lamar Papers, IV:233.
10. Moore, Savage Frontier, III:234, 274.
11. Green, Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick, 49–50.
12. Caperton, “Sketch of Col. John C. Hays,” 16; Hays battle report in Journals of the Sixth Congress Republic of Texas, III:422; Hays to Lamar in Gulick, Lamar Papers, IV:234.
13. Journals of the Sixth Congress, Republic of Texas, III:423–24; Caperton, “Sketch of Col. John C. Hays,” 18.
14. Gulick, Lamar Papers, IV:235; Caperton, “Sketch of Col. John C. Hays,” 20–21.
15. Journals of the Sixth Congress, Republic of Texas, III:424; Hays to Lamar in Gulick, Lamar Papers, IV:235. Other details of the Llano battle can be found in Caperton, “Sketch,” 16, although this early Hays historian mixes details of Hays’s June 29 and July 24 Comanche fights.
16. John C. Hays AC, R 160, F 378–493; Greer, Texas Ranger, 51–52.
17. Robinson, The Men Who Wear the Star, 66–67; Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 203–4; Caperton, “Sketch of Col. John C. Hays,” 30–31; Samuel C. Reid, The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch’s Texas Rangers (Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber and Company, 1847), 111–12; Sowell, Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas, 334–35; Greer, Texas Ranger, 52. For a detailed examination of the Enchanted Rock battle, see Moore, Savage Frontier, IV:342–48.
18. Reid, McCulloch’s Texas Rangers, 111–12.
19. Nance, After San Jacinto, 480; Pierce, Texas Under Arms, 11; Robinson, The Men Who Wear the Star, 66.
20. Greer, Texas Ranger, 60–61.
21. Joseph M. Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842 (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1964), 15–17; Brown, History of Texas, II:212; Greer, Texas Ranger, 63.
22. Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack, 26–29; Brown, History of Texas, II:213–14.
23. Jenkins, Recollections, 220; John Twohig PE, R 242, F 648.
24. De la Teja, A Revolution Remembered, 44–45.
25. Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack, 111–12; Moore, Savage Frontier, IV: 21–25.
26. McDowell, Now You Hear My Horn, 76.
27. Accounts of the so-called Bandera Pass battle of the Jack Hays rangers on the Guadalupe vary widely. For varying version of it, see Sowell, Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas, 22–23, 317–19, 809–10; Creed Taylor, “Jack Hays Fight on the Guadalupe”; and McDowell, Now You Hear My Horn, 76–78. For an analysis of this battle from these sources and Texas Archives documents, see Moore, Savage Frontier, IV:33–39.
28. McDowell, Now You Hear My Horn, 123.
29. Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack, 280–81.
30. Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 45, 20, 48, 79–83; Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire, 196, 210, 216.
31. Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack, 300–4.
32. Moore, Savage Frontier, IV:75–81.
33. Morrell, Flowers and Fruits in the Wilderness, 92.
34. Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack, 389–93.
35. Ibid., 394–95; McDowell, Now You Hear My Horn, 111.
36. Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 141; Morell, Fruits and Flowers in the Wilderness, 95.
37. Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 146; Brown, The History of Texas, II:233.
38. Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack, 481–84.
39. Sam W. Haynes, Soldiers of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier Expeditions (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990), 52–54; Nance, Attack and Counterattack, 503–15.
40. Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack, 553–57; Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 154.
41. Greer, Texas Ranger, 88–89.
42. Haynes, Soldiers of Misfortune, 119–25.
20. TRIUMPH AT WALKER’S CREEK
1. Gammell, The Laws of Texas, II:846–48, 865; Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 163–64.
2. Greer, Texas Ranger, 90; Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 168; Rufus Perry letter, Center for American History.
3. Mike Cox, The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821–1900 (New York: Forge, 2008), 89.
4. Caperton, “Sketch of Colonel John C. Hays,” 34–35, 42.
5. Hays to George Washington Hill, November 12, 1843, Texas State Archives.
6. Greer, Texas Ranger, 93.
7. Gammell, The Laws of Texas, II:943–44.
8. Greer, Texas Ranger, 104–5.
9. Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 177.
10. Hays report to Secretary of War George W. Hill, June 16, 1844, contained in Journals of the House of Representatives of the Ninth Congress of the Republic of Texas, 32–33.
11. Anderson, The Conquest of Texas, 206; Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 178; Cox, The Texas Rangers, 90–91; Hays report.
12. Greer, Texas Ranger, 98; Hays report; Sowell, Texas Indian Fighters, 809; Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 179–80.
13. Hays report; Caperton, “Sketch of Colonel John C. Hays,” 22; Knowles, They Rode for the Lone Star, 100; Wilkins, The Legend Begins, 180.
14. Cox, The Texas Rangers, 92.
15. Perry, “Memoir of Capt’n C. R. Perry,” typescript in possession of the Daughters of Republic Library; Cox, The Texas Rangers, 95.
EPILOGUE
1. Moore, Savage Frontier, IV:152.
2. Gambrell, Anson Jones, 418–19; Haley, Sam Houston, 294.
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