Indian Depredations in Texas

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Summary: Good book about early Texas
Review: I'm a Texas History teacher, and I use the book quite a bit in class. It is broken up into short, true stories of encounters with Indians in the days of early anglo settlement. Some of the accounts are funny, some harrowingly tense. Others so heartbreaking that I've never been able to shake the violent imagery. As other reviewers have stated, it reflects the opinions of the time, so if you're into PC BS you won't like it. Books like this shouldn't be forgotten.

Rating:
Summary: Good book about early Texas
Review: I'm a Texas History teacher, and I use the book quite a bit in class. It is broken up into short, true stories of encounters with Indians in the days of early anglo settlement. Some of the accounts are funny, some harrowingly tense. Others so heartbreaking that I've never been able to shake the violent imagery. As other reviewers have stated, it reflects the opinions of the time, so if you're into PC BS you won't like it. Books like this shouldn't be forgotten.

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Summary: Excellent book for first hand acounts of Indian attacks.
Review: This book, though written by a person who obviously hated Indian, was an excellent book for anyone interested in Texas history. I particularly like how the stories are indexed by county so that one may quickly find stories relating to local history as well. This book is not only fascinating from a narrative perspective but also from the fact that it contains photos of settlers who are chronicled in the stories, adding yet another dimension to the books authenticity. I highly recommend this book to parents who are trying to get their children to read (middleschool level). The book reads like a series of short adventure stories. I feel that teens would find this highly engaging especially since the stories are true, even though reported by a biased observer, Wilbarger.

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Summary: A Look at Texan/ Indian Relations Before Revisionism
Review: This is an excellent peek into the history of Indian raids in Texas and the attitudes of those they raided. It is related through a man whose brother was scalped alive by Comanches, which accounts for his bias. It was also written in a day and age before the present-day hindsight morality and political correctness was in vogue, therefore it is a genuine book with genuine attitudes of the time.

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Summary: Anyone who wants to understand US history needs this book
Review: When whites arrived on this continent they found it populated by countless tribes of residents. During the centuries that followed those tribes mostly vanished. The white conquest of North America is a story of migration and extermination. It is the microcosm of human history everywhere. The Wilbarger book is a series of accounts of the turmoil on the front lines of human encounter. The Wilbarger book is a study of understanding of the minds of men involved in conquest and an illustration of the desparate responses of the (savage)peoples being overrun and exterminated.

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Summary: Anyone who wants to understand US history needs this book
Review: When whites arrived on this continent they found it populated by countless tribes of residents. During the centuries that followed those tribes mostly vanished. The white conquest of North America is a story of migration and extermination. It is the microcosm of human history everywhere. The Wilbarger book is a series of accounts of the turmoil on the front lines of human encounter. The Wilbarger book is a study of understanding of the minds of men involved in conquest and an illustration of the desparate responses of the (savage)peoples being overrun and exterminated.

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Summary: Pulls no punches
Review: Will give you an idea of what living in Texas was like when hostilities between natives and settlers were common. As I read this book I kept imagining a Texas with no cars, no hospitals, no air conditioning and the very real threat of getting scalped on any given day. The book made me appreciate more what early Texans must have seen in their state and understand better why they came and why they stayed.

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Summary: Pulls no punches
Review: Will give you an idea of what living in Texas was like when hostilities between natives and settlers were common. As I read this book I kept imagining a Texas with no cars, no hospitals, no air conditioning and the very real threat of getting scalped on any given day. The book made me appreciate more what early Texans must have seen in their state and understand better why they came and why they stayed.