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Quahada Comanche camp. Photograph by William S. Soule. Photograph courtesy of Prints
and Photographs Collection, the Center for American History, University o/ Texas at Austin.
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the children of Castell's original settlers in 1936, they were forthright in
assigning the blame for the rise in Indian hostilities. Charles Pluenneke,
who was seventy-five years old at that time, felt that the white people
"didn't treat the Indians right." Similarly, Mrs. August (Marie) Donop re-
called that her father, Fritz Leifeste, had said the two groups coexisted
peacefully until "some of the white people became angry with the Indi-
ans and began beating them in trades and mistreating them." Bowman
concluded that the Indians in that region became warlike in the i86os
and 187os because of the treatment they received at the hands of the
white settlers.
The tension between the Indians and the whites was only one of the
problems the Korns would encounter in the hill country. Within two
years after they arrived in i86o, Louis Korn had lost his initial twelve-
hundred-dollar investment in cattle, due to the lack of a reliable market
in the area and the difficulty of managing the wild cattle.8 The Korn fam-
7 Karl A. Hoerig, "The Relationship between German Immigrants and the Native Peoples in
Western Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 97 (Jan., 1994), 434, 446-447; Hazel Oatman
Bowman, "Quaint Castell, Outpost of German Pioneers," San Antonio Express, July 26, 1936, pp.
Di, D3 (quotations).
' Wilbert, Kernels ofJKorn, 18; Florence T. Hillard, "Tallow Candle Days," [Daily Oklahoman],
n.d., photostat of clipping in Hey family file, M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library, Mason, Texas
(interview with Hannah Hey and Minnie Pingenot, Louis Korn's daughters).518
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