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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 26: Cherokee feuds. (search)
e White men and carry off the White women from Vinita, that is what's going to happen, growls a setts a savage, like the fathers of his tribe. Vinita is a Cherokee town. Why should the Cherokees s in from Texas. Is not Texas a long way from Vinita? Guess they're smart boys, those Texas res daughters, Billy Ross will scalp the boys of Vinita, and bear their women to his camp. The boys w, though their paper capital is at Tahlequah. Vinita is a nest of sties and shanties, lying among aite of smart reporters, no White women live in Vinita; and no White men, except seven or eight railwhe only White men who have got into trouble at Vinita, are two scalawags, who brought whisky to the han a whisky broil threatens the prosperity of Vinita. These Cherokees are cursed with a tribal feuderstand an English phrase. It is a saying in Vinita, that the son of Strong Buck is rather White tt Colonel Adair is living with his nation near Vinita. On Christmas Day, Lewis, a son-in-law of Col[2 more...]
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 32: a frontier town. (search)
et. Finding a market opening for planks, three firms in St. Louis sent down several loads of white pine. These planks and boards had to come nearly six hundred miles by train. A good market seldom fails to find supplies, and when the lumberers heard that pines were wanted in Denison, they sent in teams, though Denison was a place unknown to maps and charts. Work went merrily on. The Nelson House was roofed, the Adams House begun. Shanties here and there sprang up. Negroes from Caddo and Vinita, Jews from Dallas, Shreveport, and Galveston, rowdies and gamblers from every quarter of the compass, flocked into the town. A bar, an auction mart, a dancing room, were opened. In six months Denison had a thousand citizens of various colours and persuasions, and was famed from Dallas to Galveston as the livest town in all Texas. Twenty-eight months have hardly passed since Colonel Stevens drew his plan on that sheet of paper, and Denison is now a town of four thousand five hundred sou