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under the protection of a ranger force of eighty-five men.13 Thus
the forts faced the Indian Country.
Despite these precautions life and property were secure only
within gunshot of the forts. The Indians rode into the country
during the light of every moon. Scouts were constantly on the
alert, but even then the savages managed to penetrate their lines,
to steal horses, to kill the cattle on the prairies, and to massacre
defenseless settlers and solitary travellers. Hunting practically
ceased except for that carried on by the scouts, who, fortunately,
were successful in obtaining ample supplies of meat for the barri-
caded settlers.
Among the isolated ones was John R. McIntyre who had early
settled several miles above the mouth of Choctaw Bayou near Red
River. The proximity of Shawneetown rendered this location un-
suitable, if not unsafe. Accordingly McIntyre moved to the cross-
ing on Choctaw (at the present site of the Bells-Denison highway
bridge) about 1838. This crossing has since borne his name.
There he had John F. Moody as a neighbor. Shortly after Mc-
Intyre's arrival, Moody was obliged to go to Warren on business.
Late in the afternoon while riding homeward he was fired upon
from an ambuscade which the Indians had laid almost directly in
front of McIntyre's house. The latter heard the shot and saw
Moody fall dead from his horse. Barricading his family in the
cabin, he watched the savages indulge in a veritable orgy over the
body of their victim. Moody was scalped and his face and body
shockingly mutilated. This done, the Indians built a bonfire and
held a war dance around the bloody corpse. It was thought at the
time that the Shawnees committed the murder by mistake, intend-
ing rather to kill McIntyre whom they hated.14
Soon after Moody's death, Shawnees killed McIntyre's two eldest
sons while they were hunting below Choctaw. The boys were about
twelve and fourteen years old, respectively." Dr. Rowlett, in de-
scribing their murder, says,
At one time I saw two little boys, the sons of John R. McIntire,
of the age of ten, and twelve years [Rowlett is at fault concerning
the age of the boys] who had been murdered in sight of each other
""Information from Winm. B. Stout," The Lamar Papers, IV, 273.
1Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, 401 ff.
15Ibid., 401.292
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