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Reserve, was on the Clear Fork of the Brazos, at Camp Cooper, and
about forty-five miles west of the Brazos Agency. It consisted of
the other four leagues, or 18,576 acres.0
There was some delay in getting the Indians settled. As is evi-
dent from the letters of Marcy and Neighbors to Governor Pease,
the land was not surveyed until almost a year after the Legislature
made the appropriation. Major Neighbors wrote Charles Mix, the
Indian Commissioner, on September 10, 1855, that he had received
instructions February 2, 1855, to settle the Indians, but that it had
been impossible to carry out the instructions until March 1, 1855.10
The Gazette for April 7, 1855, contained a brief statement of the
progress of settlement. Major Neighbors, and George Hill and
George Howard, his assistant agents, had collected most of the
"peaceful" Indians then in the state, had selected sites for the
principal buildings to be erected, contracted for supplies; and
broken up land for planting.11
2. The Reservations in Texas
The Brazos Agency.-The Brazos Agency was the more success-
ful of the two reservations. On it, the agents settled the more
civilized tribes, consisting of Caddoes, Wacoes, Tawakonies, Ana-
darkoes, Tonkawas, Keechies, and Delawares.12 The accounts
usually referred to the Indians on this reservation as Caddoes, for
they were the most numerous, and the others were remnants of
tribes.13 The number of Indians at the Brazos Agency increased
each year, as more and more of the tribes were induced to settle
down. In September of 1855, there were 794 Indians at the
Agency. A year later there were 948, an increase of about one
hundred fifty. The next year the arrival of the Keechie band
brought the number up to 1,014, and in September of 1852 there
were 1,112 Indians at the agency.14
'Texas Almanac, 1858, p. 92; Brown, History of Texas, II, 377; Bancroft,
The North Mexican States and Texas, II, 406-407.
1034 Cong., 1 Sess., House Doe. No. 1, p. 497.
"Texas State Gazette, April 7, 1855.
'Bancroft, The North Mexican States and Texas, II, 407; Texas Almanac,
1858, p. 92; 35 Cong., 1 Sess., House Doc. No. 2, p. 558.
"Texas Almanac, 1858, p. 92; Ibid., 1859, p. 130; Ibid., 1869, p. 158.
1434 Cong., 1 Sess., House Doc. No. 1, p. 498; 34 Cong., 3 Sess., Senate
Doc. No. 5, p. 724; 35 Cong., 1 Sess., House Doe. No. 2, p. 557; 35 Cong.,100
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, July 1925 - April, 1926, periodical, 1926; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth117141/m1/114/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.