A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . the line of the frontier would be defended,trading posts established, and the rights of bothparties fixed and respected within the agreedlimits. In pursuance of that plan he appointedJoseph C. Eldridge commissioner of Indian af-fairs. A partial treaty was made in the winterof 1842-43 with the Wacos, and representa-tives of several of the smaller tribes visited tliePresident to have friendly talks. In March,1843, Houston sent Eldridge, with Hamilton and Thomas Torrey, to see all the tribes onthe Brazos, upper Trinity, and
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . the line of the frontier would be defended,trading posts established, and the rights of bothparties fixed and respected within the agreedlimits. In pursuance of that plan he appointedJoseph C. Eldridge commissioner of Indian af-fairs. A partial treaty was made in the winterof 1842-43 with the Wacos, and representa-tives of several of the smaller tribes visited tliePresident to have friendly talks. In March,1843, Houston sent Eldridge, with Hamilton and Thomas Torrey, to see all the tribes onthe Brazos, upper Trinity, and as far north asthe Comanche headquarters in the Indian Terri-tory, to solicit their head chiefs to meet him ina general council for the purpose of entering intoa treaty of peace and trade. The point selected for this nnetingwas Birds Fort, on the west fork of the Trinity, being abouttwentv-tvvo miles west of where Dallas now stantls, and the date Period Republic 1836 TO1846 War of theRegulatorsand Modera- HoustonsIndian policy-Treaty withIndiansattempted. Fol T ON THl \Vl Sll KN BoRDLk 292 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. 1836 TO1846 Adventures ofEldridge, Bee,and Torrey Meet with rep-resentatives ofseveral tribes Pay-hayyuc-co Period IV. was August lo. The latter part of March the commissionersThe Republic ^^^ ^^^ from Washington, accompanied by Acoquash, head chiefof the Wacos, a party of Delaware guides and interpreters, apack train with supplies and presents for the Indians, and car-rying with them two Comanche children, captured three yearsbefore in the Council House Fight at San Antonio. They pro-ceeded up the Brazos and then north to a point on the upperTrinity, probably in what is now Wise, or Jack County, wherethey met representatives of the Waco, Tawakana, Towash, lonie,Keechi, Caddo, Bedais, Biloxi, Delaware, and Anadarko tribes,all of whom promised to attend the council. They were delayedhere a month, but pushed on north to find the , about the
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