Blasts from Forney’s past
Wed, 11/09/2016 - 14:48
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by CARY GRIFFIN
Before outside settlers began trickling into our part of North Texas after Texas became a republic in 1836, virtually nothing but flat Texas prairie land stretched as far as the eye could see. The land, home to the Caddo Indian tribe, was beautiful and apparently serene, bursting with bison, deer and other wildlife. But an early settler and writer, John H. Cochran, peeled back the area’s quiet veneer, at least from the standpoint of people unaccustomed to the hardships of the as-yet largely unexplored frontier.
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