Re: "Holding Their Own VI: Bishop's Song" by Joe Nobody

On 3/12/2025 4:36 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

"Holding Their Own VI: Bishop's Song" by Joe Nobody

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Going home back to Tennessee from Texas is dangerous, very dangerous.
Cannibals, thieves, federal troops, etc.  Kind of like Texas in the 1800s.

 You do realize that the _Lone Ranger_ was fiction, right?
 Now a black man in Texas in the first half of the 1800s was
most likely enslaved, for which life would indeed have been
'dangerous, very dangerous'.

The Karankawas, reputedly cannibals, were mostly killed off by the Spaniards in Texas in the 1600s and 1700s.  The Texans almost finished the job in the 1800s.  There are Native Americans now claiming to be Karankawas that have suddenly surfaced after centuries of hiding in the populace.
  https://texashighways.com/culture/people/karankawa-descendants-are-reclaiming-their-heritage-after-being-written-off-extinct/
After the first Civil War, federal troops came into Texas and killed most of the Comanches.  The federal troops then drove the Kiowas up to the reservations in Oklahoma.  The other Native Americans in Texas were fairly peaceful.
Living on the southern border of Texas has always been dangerous with Mexican raiders coming across, burning out farms and ranches, and then running back across the border.
I could go on and on.
Lynn