Same here Coss. I'm located between the Trinity and Navasota rivers. In the old days, so I am told, the upland prairies were much bigger in extent than they are now.
Just in my area the ones that I can think of the names for are/were running from east to west or Trinity to Navasota rivers are:
Mustang
Goose
Middleton
Leon
Rogers
Sand
Little Rock and Big rock
Wheelock
Buffalo
Each of them then several thousand acres in extent. Now so shrunken by timber and brush some of them are almost unreconizable.
The Army was responsible for many of the errors in historical records.The confusion about the Salt Creek Massacre I mentioned earlier in this thread is because the Army referred to the area just West of Cox Mountain [where the Warren train was ambushed] as the "Salt Grass Prarie".There appears to be no reason for applying that name to it and I've found no other reference to it.They evidently also mistook a branch of Cameron Creek for Salt Creek in one report and Flint Creek in another.
Of course,nowadays, the Army always gets stuff right.
