EP. 105: The Indian Trial Part 1: People, Places, and Policy

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Ken Wise

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🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The western frontier of Texas moved backwards during the Civil War. Indian raids pushed the settlers toward safer ground. After the war, the raiding had become so bad that something had to be done. The federal government thought leading with diplomacy would solve the problem but the Texans wanted military action. An 1871 attack on a wagon train and the subsequent efforts to impose the rule of law on the frontier proved a turning point in U.S./Indian relations. Ripped from today's headlines, the Indian Trial teaches us valuable lessons...if we choose to learn. Learn more in Part 1 of the the latest episode of Wise About Texas.

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0:00.0	Howdy and welcome to Wise about Texas. I'm your host Ken Wise and thank you for tuning in today for Little Texas
0:14.7	history. This podcast is being released in the fall of 2021. So that's hunting
0:20.0	in football season here in Texas, one of my favorite times of the year. I hope
0:23.6	you're enjoying those activities and enjoying a little bit of cooler weather.
0:27.1	It's been a very very busy time here at World Headquarters. I just finished an article that's going to publish in the Texas Supreme
0:36.2	Court Historical Society Journal this fall, which will be the subject to this podcast. We get
0:40.9	two in a few minutes. I've longtime listeners know I've joined the board of the
0:44.7	Texas State Historical Association and also the Texas Historical Foundation and the both of those organizations do a wonderful job of preserving Texas
0:56.0	history and I'm enjoying my service very much. It's more important than ever that we
1:02.2	all get together those of us that love Texas,
1:05.0	we all get together and preserve real Texas history because our history is under attack
1:11.0	as everybody knows and I'm going to do my part I hope you'll do
1:14.4	your part too. Well today I'm going to start with part one of what will be a
1:21.8	multiple part episode on a very significant event in Texas history,
1:26.5	indeed in United States history.
1:28.7	Now that's a big statement.
1:30.4	But in the late 19th century, especially on the Western frontier in northern Texas,
1:34.8	relations with the Plains Indians was something that the people thought about a lot.
1:40.2	Now, listeners of this podcast will know that as Texas settlement expanded west
1:46.0	the Plains tribes and specifically for the purposes of these next several
1:51.8	episodes the Comanches and the Kiowa's made Western
1:55.3	expansion in the United States very very dangerous in fact it was basically a
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