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fels sent to Governor Pease a report of a public meeting held at
New Braunfels the day before. This meeting adopted measures
to co-operate with the citizens of Guadalupe County in raising
volunteer assistance to protect the frontier settlements against the
marauding incursions of Indians. The committee was instructed
to ascertain from Governor Pease to what extent he would furnish
such a volunteer company with arms, provisions, and pack mules.4'
In the summer of 1859 Christian and Peter Crenwelge were pur-
sued by Indians near Loyal Valley, now in Mason County. That
same night, however, a number of horses were stolen from Fort
Mason."4
This list of Indian depredations against German settlers is only
partial, but even the complete list is small in comparison with that
of Indian depredations in the other settled portions of Texas. It
is not at all certain that the Comanches, with whom Meusebach
had made the treaty, were guilty of all the depredations committed
on the Germans. Small bands of Lipans and Wacoes made the
country unsafe. In Meusebach's Answer to Interrogatories this
significant passage is found:
Colonel Jack Hays, the celebrated Indian fighter, when he re-
turned from a trip to El Paso made in the interest of the San
Antonio merchants to find the nearest overland road, in 1858
or '59, I believe, stopped at my house at Comanche Springs, and
told me that he was astonished that the Indians kept their
treaty so well. That he was never molested nor lost any animals
during his travel within the limits of our colony, but as soon as
he had passed the line he had losses."
The conclusions of this study can be stated briefly. Separate
relations between the German settlers and the Indians in the
counties Austin, Fayette, Washington, Colorado, DeWitt, Lee, Gon-
zales, and Lavaca did not exist, but were especially cordial in the
counties Comal, Gillespie, Kendall, Mason, and Llano. Prince
Solms indicated in his first report to the Adelsverein that he would
try to get on good terms with the Indians. He took those pre-
"State Archives, Texas State Library, State Department, Indian
Affairs, 1845-1860. The committee consisted of Robert Bechem, J.ames
Ferguson, Ernst Dosch, August Hartmann, and A. Nauendorf.
"Penniger, Fest-Ausgabe, 191-192. It was supposed that these were
Comanches.
" 2ieusebach, Answer to Interrogatories, 25-26.128
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 31, July 1927 - April, 1928, periodical, 1928; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101088/m1/140/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.