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THB[TEXAS] Indians & Wolf Attacks, 1857 Frontier Letter
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LiveApr 24, 2026
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Autograph letter signed by "Seth," to his "Dear Old Couz." Brownsville, [Texas], 27 December 1857. 4 pages, 4to.
A lively and enthusiastic written from Brownsville, Texas by a frontiersman named Seth to his cousin back east.
The area was sparsely settled when United States troops under General Zachary Taylor arrived in early 1846 and shortly thereafter erected a temporary fort. The territory became part of the state of Texas after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, and soon swelled in size from Matamoros refugees, '49ers en route to the California goldfields, and settlers from out East.
The letter writer regales his cousin with enthusiastic reports of the "finest weather" and the favorable growing conditions for farming. Stating boldly, "I am not homesick in the least, and I do not know who could be homesick."
He writes of the local wildlife, relating a story of the wolves that roam the area: "Wolves and prairie hens are very plenty here but I haven't spent a half day hunting since I came here. If I were to hunt I could not shoot a prairie hen no more than I could that block of wood that were thrown up in the air. Wolves are very bold and I could shoot once and a while one if I had a gun. One came very near chasing a hen into the house the other morning and would [have] if I had not met him at the door. Oh how I wanted a gun then I would [have] put a hole through his gizzard. Other game is scarce."
He also comments on the Native Americans who also populated and moved through the region: "We have lots of Indians in the Territory and they often pop through here 50 and a 100 in a company."
[Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs] [Texas, Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, Alamo, Texas Rangers]
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