Excerpt from Border Wars of Texas: Being an Authentic and Popular Account in Chronological Order, of the Long and Bitter Conflict Wage Between Savage Indian Tribes and the Pioneer Settlers of Texas Historians have often regretted that {the reader can be but imperfectly introduced {to the private and domestic life of the people. The dignity of councils, the parade of camps and armies, prevent the historian from attempting the short and simple annals of the poor. The history of Ih dian hostilities, in some measure incidentally supplies this defect, affording a glimpse of the people as they were, viv id and faithful as a photograph. I can say that the impartial truth of history has been strictly adhered to in the pages now before the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.