History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties. Page: 485
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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
word passed around in the neighborhood, and
a large delegation of the 'men folks' soon
gathered at the big spring. Settlers were
not flush with money in those days but they
knew how to ' raise the wind' when occasion
demanded as well as people of these times,
and so a self-constituted committee on ways
and means immediately set about to devise a
plan whereby Kattenhorn's whisky could be
transferred from Kattenhorn to the settlers
and Kattenhorn properly remunerated for the
satnme. After considering two or three schemes
they finally drew up a joint promissory note,
which was signed by each of the settlers,
agreeing to pay Kattenhorn at a certain time
a stated amount for the liquor, which lie accepted
and thereupon delivered to them the
coveted article. They proceeded to divide it
in equal lots, and after having imbibed a
sufficient quantity to put them on their mettle
they instituted a series of foot-races, the
stake being a quart a race. They drank and
ran and ran and drank until all were glorious
full and happy, in which condition as
many as could shouldered their jugs and
started for home, some reaching there like
Tam O'Shanter to meet the angry frowns of
their 'gentle danmes,' others falling by the
wayside to dream of foot-races in fields elysian,
while still others remained about the
spring, where I suppose they made good use
of its cooling waters when they awoke from
their reveries. It should be mentioned that
they paid the note to Kattenhorn at miaturity.""Yes, yes," said Mr. McCown, reaching
for his pipe and package of Durham tobacco;
', the early Texans were a great people, a
peculiar people, perhaps, but a great and
a good people,-honest, brave, generous, hospitable,
true to their kind and faithful to
their country. They were not a culturedclass as culture now goes; but in real manhood
and womanhood I think they fairly
filled the measure, and in their rough strength
they were resistless, as history slows. Mexican,
Indian, wild beast and all natural obstacles
have gone down before them in their
steady march toward the west. The world
will perhaps never see their like again, as it
will probably never see another Texas."
/t 1W. DUNN, another one of the successful
farmers of Burleson county,
Texas, settled in this State in 1.S69,
after a long career of travel. For a
few years he lived in Milam county, where
he lad settled on 160 acres of land and developed
a farm. In 1876 lie sold out and
came to his present location. After renting
here for two years, lie bought a tract of land,
450 acres in extent, thirty-five acres of which
were under fence. He has sold off a portion
of this land, but still retains 280 acres, 200
acres of which is fenced and 140 under cultivation,
a portion of it being rented. His
farm products are cotton, corn and oats. IIe
raises sufficient stock to run the farm, and
also some to sell.
Mr. Dunn was born near Raleigh, North
Carolina, October 25, 1833. lie was reared
to farm life in Alabama and received a good
education. He lived under the parental roof
until he was twenty-two years of age, when,
in the fall of 1855, he started for California
to seek his fortune in the gold mines of that
country. He mined there for three years
and then returned to his home, after which,
in 1860, lie once more visited California, and
while there entered a scouting company under
the command of Captain Joe Walker. Subsequently
he went to Arizona, where, in comnI
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Lewis Publishing Company. History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties., book, 1893; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29785/m1/521/: accessed April 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.