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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 32: a frontier town. (search)
ol was marked, and the young city being named Denison, a day was fixed when corner lots were to be bidders that a railway dep6t would be built. Denison was to be the magazine of Fort Richardson, Fowanted in Denison, they sent in teams, though Denison was a place unknown to maps and charts. Work, a dancing room, were opened. In six months Denison had a thousand citizens of various colours anerns, and an unknown number of faro-banks. Denison cal already boast of a mayor, eight aldermen,d in a good cause. Rough, noisy, profligate, Denison is a very live place. Much drink is put awayan be seen. No Redskin lives at Denison; yet Denison is something more than a dep6t for Fort Sill the country, we are ready at the gates. All Denison will move across Red River. Caddo is nearer to Fort Sill than Denison, and would suit the Government better as a magazine of arms and stores. t Go ahead, would bring ten thousand men to Denison, Caddo, and Limestone Gap in less than a week[4 more...]
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 33: Texas and Texans. (search)
ne it well; but man has not found time, as yet, to use her gifts. The fight for life is still too hard for men to ask for anything more dainty than campaigning fare. Game! cries a comrade in the dining-room; guess the only game we Texans care about is poker. Dine where you may-at prairie ranch, at roadside inn, at railway restaurant — the beef is all leather, the bacon all fat; and when you ask for another dish, you are served with more beef all leather, and more bacon all fat. From Denison to Hearne, from Hearne to Galveston, the plains of Texan are dotted with cattle. Steers browse on every knoll, heifers make pastorals at every pool. Here now, you whisper to yourself, is a country of wholesome food-fresh meat, pure milk, new butter, native cheese; here, after courses of jerked antelope and alkaline water, we shall have a chance of growing strong on simple meat and wholesome drink. Sore is your surprise on asking the Texans for this simple meat and wholesome drink.