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Identifier: historygeography00fulm (find matches)
Title: The history and geography of Texas as told in county names
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Fulmore, Zachary Taylor, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Names, Geographical
Publisher: (Austin, Press of E. L. Steck
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ld conquer any of its neighbors. The name,therefore, is, as is Nacogdoches, of prehistoric origin. WICHITA. This was a common name for a number of tribes of Indianswho occupied the headwaters of Red River and its tributaries.They came down into Texas from the north after the Span-iards first came to the country and lived in villages of theupper Brazos and Red Rivers. Like the Cherokees, they werepeaceably inclined as a rule, practiced agriculture and remainedin Texas long after the Anglo-American settlers came, but dis-appeared on the reservation after the Civil War. As Told in County Names 267 CHAPTER XVII. PHYSIOGRAPHIC NAMES. THE PHYSIOGRAPHIC NAMES OF COUNTIES. 1. Atascosa 11. Falls 20. Matagorda 2. Blanco 12. Fort Bend 21. Midland 3. Bosque 13. Freestone 22. Nueces 4. Brazoria 14. Frio 23. Orange 5. Brazos 15. Lampasas 24. Palo Pinto 6. Colorado 16. Lavaca 25. Panola 7. Concho 17. Limestone 26. Red River 8. Comal 18. Live Oak 27. Rockwall 9. Delta 19. Llano 28. Sabine 10. El Paso
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As Told in County Names 269 ATASCOSA. This word means boggy. We have no historical accountof its apphcation to this region, but there would seem to beno doubt as to why it was called Atascosa before the Anglo-Americans began to traverse it. Browns History of Texas(Vol. II, p. 235) says: On a pleasant November day, 22nd,1842, all the camps (of the Somervell Expedition) around theMission Concepcion * * * ^qqJ. ^^jp ^j^^ jjj^^ of march onthe road from San Antonio to El Presidio Rio Grande. They•encamped two nights and a day on the Rio Medina, then crossedthat stream and after following the road several miles, to theastonishment and mortification of everyone, turned to the leftsoutherly * * * and a few miles brought them to a sandypostoak country where horses and mules sank to their bodiesin quicksand. * * * That locality became known as the■bogs, or The Devils Eight Leagues. Green, in his Mier Expedition, gives a somewhat moreminute and picturesque description. He says: This kind ofl

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