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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint and use the material listed below:

THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
: Excerpts from the following items in the John Coffee Hays Collection: “Sketch of Colonel John C. Hays, The Texas Rangers, Incidents in Texas and Mexico, Etc,” CN 2R35; excerpts from “Indian Raid, Pursuit and Fight” and “Jack Hays Fight on Gaudaloupe [sic],” both items by James T. DeShields, CN 3F176; “Jack Hays’Visit to Washington, Texas” by John W. Lockhart, CN 3F176. Excerpts from the following items in the Earl Vandale Collection: Elm Creek Raid Statements (various), CN 2H481; “The Death of Nocona” by Benjamin Franklin Gholson, CN 2H464; “An Indian Raid in Young County, Texas, October 13, 1864” by Thornton K. Hamby (from Elm Creek Raid Statements), CN 2H481. Excerpt from the following item from the Samuel Hamilton Walker Vertical File, housed in the Texas Collection Library: “Col. Samuel H. Walker” by J. H. Kuykendall. All items used by permission of The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

EAKIN PRESS
: Excerpt from
Roemer’s Texas 1845–1847
by Ferdinand Roemer, translated by Oswald Mueller. Reprinted by permission of Eakin Press.

GERALD B. HURST
: Excerpts from
Buck Barry, Texas Ranger and Frontiersman
by James K. Greer. Reprinted by permission of Gerald B. Hurst.

TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
: Excerpts from
My Confession: Recollections
of a Rogue,
unexpurgated and annotated edition by Samuel Chamberlain (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996); excerpts from “Memoirs of Major George Bernard Erath” by Lucy A. Erath (
Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
Vol. 26, no. 4, April 1923, pp. 255–280); excerpts from “Diary of a Texan Volunteer in the Mexican War” by James K. Holland (
Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
Vol. 30, no. 1, July 1926, pp. 1–33); excerpts from
Fifty Miles and a Fight: Major Samuel
Peter Heintzelman’s Journal of Texas and the Cortina War
edited by Jerry Don Thompson (Austin: Texas State Historical Commission, 1998). All material reprinted by permission of Texas State Historical Association.

TEXAS WESTERN PRESS
:Excerpts from
The March to Monterrey: The Diary of
Lieutenant Rankin Dilworth, U. S. Army
edited by Lawrence R. Clayton and Joseph E. Chance (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1996) and excerpts from
Revolution on the Rio Grande: Mexican Raids and Army Pursuits, 1916–1919
by Glenn Justice (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1992). All material reprinted by permission of Texas Western Press.