I had to go back four pages to find you. Thought you had fell in a hole.
"Interesting thing is how empty Texas was, even as late as that date. Much of the country between Houston and San Antonio didn't really fill up until a bewildering variety (to me) of German/Eastern European immigrants flooded in the in the 1870's."
Texas was big wide and lonesome even moreso earlier.
The survivors of the Ft Parker raid had to go to Ft Houston, present day Palestine to find people. The left from near present day Grosebeck. That is almost a hundred miles and there was nobody in between those points.
