. Philip of Texas; a story of sheep raising in Texas. me into the UnitedStates. I found, as any one can who will make diligentsearch, the most interesting stories not only abouthunting, but about the early troubles between Texasand Mexico, the Texans fight for independence, andthe many Indian raids. FATHER GOES TO SPY OUT THE LAND It seemed to me that father and mother spent a greatdeal of unnecessary time in discussing whether theywould change their home from Mississippi to fact I was beginning to despair of ever becominga sheep raiser in the Peters colony, when father sud-denly decl
. Philip of Texas; a story of sheep raising in Texas. me into the UnitedStates. I found, as any one can who will make diligentsearch, the most interesting stories not only abouthunting, but about the early troubles between Texasand Mexico, the Texans fight for independence, andthe many Indian raids. FATHER GOES TO SPY OUT THE LAND It seemed to me that father and mother spent a greatdeal of unnecessary time in discussing whether theywould change their home from Mississippi to fact I was beginning to despair of ever becominga sheep raiser in the Peters colony, when father sud-denly declared that he would go to see the country forhimself, and if it w^as half as good as people said it was,he would lay out his claim of six hundred and forty 22 PHILIP OF TEXAS acres and come back to sell the plantation and movethe live stock. I begged hard to be allowed to go with him, but myrequest was not to be granted, for although we ownedtwo slaves, John and Zeba, neither of them could betrusted to look after the cattle, the sheep, and the Therefore it was decided that I should be the head ofthe family while father was away, and so proud was Iover being given such a position of trust, that I failedto grieve, as I otherwise might have done, at not beingallowed to go with him. He set out with a pair of our best mules hitched toa light wagon, intending to drive to Little Rock inArkansas, and from there to Fort Towson, after which OUR PLANTATION IN MISSISSIPPI 23 he would make his way across what is now GraysonCounty, spying out the land. OUR PLANTATION IN MISSISSIPPI It was not a very long journey, although he wouldprobably travel two or three hundred miles beforeturning back. We lived in Bolivar County, in Missis-sippi, near Indian Point, where, as you know, the Ar-kansas River joins with the Mississippi. Our plantation was not well suited to cotton raising,and perhaps for this reason father was all the morewilling to listen to those people who had so much tosay about
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