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Friends on another forum were discussing "Empire of the Summer Moon," the wonderfully readable history of the Comanche tribe, when someone mentioned another good read -- "Land of Good Water, a History of Williamson County, Texas."
Third-party sellers wanted $165 or more for this book, used, on Amazon, but I found it for $25 at the Williamson Museum Gift Shop.
I am eager to read this book, my great-great grandfather having been murdered in 1856 in adjoining Burnet County.
 
Things were never quite and peaceful in central Texas...what are now Bastrop, Travis and Williamson counties were a hot bed of Comanche raids, personal feuds and general mayhem...Fayette County had a few good tussles plus the Chicken Ranch! They even shot the sheriff in McDade! Didn't know there was a museum or gift shop over there...good to know!
 
I really enjoy digging for artifacts and Wilco is super rich in history. I grew up there and would walk along the San Gabriel after school. Constantly found points and blades. I've gone on a few paid digs where they get a Bobcat and punch down about 4-10' along the banks, every bucket load will have some pre-form or point in it.
 
Keith, any idea of the age of those artifacts? Are they mostly knapped from the local cherts? I brought a couple of hunks of central Texas chert home with me several years back, picked up along a back road between San Saba and Comanche where my daughter and I had tried to find my great-great grandmother's grave. Always wondered how it would knap, and wether it needs heat treating first.
 
BillinOregon said:
Keith, any idea of the age of those artifacts? Are they mostly knapped from the local cherts? I brought a couple of hunks of central Texas chert home with me several years back, picked up along a back road between San Saba and Comanche where my daughter and I had tried to find my great-great grandmother's grave. Always wondered how it would knap, and wether it needs heat treating first.

Talk to M.D. on this forum about knapping Texas chert. I sent him a big chunk of it and he has knapped a good bit of it and can tell you how it knapps.
 
There is another good book: "Indian Depredations In Texas" by J.W. Wilbarger, written in the 1890s.

There's also "Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians" about Herman Lehmann.

Snakebite
 
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