Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . lves of his undoubted crime. A negro informed them where the bones of a traveler could befound, viz., in an old well; and those of another were said to havebeen discovered bleaching upon the prairie. Yokums family wereordered to leave the house, the furniture was removed, and thepremises set on fire. The family, and all the hangers-on, had acertain number of days allowed them to move their effects and leavethe county, being threatene
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . lves of his undoubted crime. A negro informed them where the bones of a traveler could befound, viz., in an old well; and those of another were said to havebeen discovered bleaching upon the prairie. Yokums family wereordered to leave the house, the furniture was removed, and thepremises set on fire. The family, and all the hangers-on, had acertain number of days allowed them to move their effects and leavethe county, being threatened with death if they ever returned. This last measurewas one of neces-sity, as the safetyof all those con-cerned in their re-moval dependedupon it. The Regulatorsset forth uponYokums trail, and succeeded in findinghim at a house near Spring Creek, inthe present county of Montgomery, and then known as Spring Creekcounty. The culprit was secured and carried some miles on thehomeward route, when his captors dismounted, informed him thathis time had come, and giving him one short half hour to repent thevillainies of a long lifetime, shot him through the DOOM OF THE DESPERADO. THE DESPERADO AND THE REGULATORS. 113 The family of Yokum, and all connected with them, left thecounty and emigrated further west, denouncing the lynching partyand sw^earing that they would be revenged upon every one who hada hand in the affair. There is no doubt but that some of thesethreats would have been fulfilled, had not the citizens of Libertycounty proved that they were terribly in earnest, in their determina-tion to take instant and fatal measures, with any one of the clanwho should dare to again cross the county line. The least objectionable of all of Yokums tribe, one of his sons,Christopher—perhaps the only one against whom some heinouscrime could not have been established—had married a short timebefore the general breaking up of the gang. His wife refused toaccompany or to follow him,
Size: 1799px × 1388px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectfrontierandpioneerli
