Leakey, Texas
Leakey,
Texas
April 20, 2007.
We are staying in Kerrville
at Kerrville
Schreiner City Park that was formerly Kerrville
Schreiner State Park. $15 per-night for FHU plus a $5 per-day entrance
fee (but you can purchase an annual pass for $25 which we did). Kerrville
Schreiner Park is located within the city limits on the Guadalupe
River and has everything one could want in the way of Hill
Country Ambiance. With that said there are probably 12-RV-Parks in Kerrville
that are very nice plus they have good location as well. Many of these private
parks are located on the Guadalupe
River as well.
From
Vanderpool we went sightseeing with Al
driving us through the scenic backroads of the Hill Country. In Leakey,
pronounced Lakey, we pulled into this place -------- no not for deer corn, we
were stopping for cold drinks. It is a drive-thru beverage store but the sweet
young thing will throw a 50-pound bag of deer corn in the back of your truck.
Forget the trunk, not much pulls through that door other than pick up trucks,
and most of them are duallies. Real men drive duallys out here. If you gotta ask
what a dually is go straight to the back of the line and stand there with your
golf club.
The
Hog Pen Bar-B-Q in Leakey a Hill
Country favorite
My
my! Look what is heading to the hog pen!
Sometimes I see humor when I shouldn't.
Joyce tells me that
even if it is funny I should keep my mouth shut, bite my tongue, and look the
other way.
Sometimes, I don't take her advice. VBG
Leakey
Feedlot a popular stop in Leakey,
Texas for the bikers
I
absolutely love some of the signs I see here in Texas. The folks in these parts
have a sense of humor that fits my style.
I do not know if it is actually
90-miles to fast food but I will guarantee it is a "far piece" as country
folks might say.
Texas Historical
Marker in Leakey Cemetery honoring
victim of last indian raid back in Frio Canyon 1881
This
Historic Marker in the Leakey
Cemetery honors Catherine R. McLauren (1849-1881) a victim of the last indian
raid in Frio Canyon, April 19, 1881.
She was the mother of three small children.
"Kate" McLauren was home with her children and a neighbor boy, Allen
Lease, when a Lipan Apache band started to plunder their house.
Though shot
with a bullet, she sent her six-year old child maud, for help but died shortly
after husband John's return that night.
I found the compelling story of
this event on this website:
http://www.unc.edu/~ecanada/hilton5.html
Here
is an exerpt from that website.... be sure and visit that website to get the full
story and how this author retrieved the story. It is a great read as well.
From:
http://www.unc.edu/~ecanada/hilton5.html
"The Ranch house at
Buzzards Roost was uphill from the river, with the garden between. Kate McLauren
and the 3 small children along with a 15 year old boy Allen Lease who lived with
them, were working in the garden. It was around two in the afternoon of April
19, 1881 and Mrs. McLaurin heard a noise in the house. She thought it was their
hogs. They could easily get in the house thru open doors and windows. But, It
wasn't. It was Lipan Apache on a raid, plundering her home. Allen was shot investigating
the noise. A wounded Kate McLauren was left for dead."
"The children
were unharmed and Maud 6 years old got a pillow from the house to place under
her dying mother's head. She then went for help. Her father John McLaurin was
gone to court Bandera, Texas with several of his neighbors."
"Help
came at sundown, Kate was barely alive, she asked for some water, which was given.
She died within minutes. Allen Lease was still lying at the foor of the hill where
he fell, but the hogs had eaten his face off. The bodies were taken into Leakey,
A group of settlers met a John Leakey's and under the leadership of Captain J.J.H.
Patterson chased the indians for 70 miles south, toward Mexico."
"From
Fort Clark, the 27 Seminole Negro Scouts commanded by John Lapham Bullis were
sent out in pursuit. They crossed the Rio Grande April 30 into the Sierra del
Burro Mountains of Mexico. The next evening they found the Lipan Apache camp.
At daybreak of May 2, they attacked killing several braves. They found a woman
and a boy, as well as twenty-one animals."
"John McLauren and
neighbors returned to Fort Clark to identify their property, even the clothing
of Kate McLauren."
"This was the last Indian raid in Texas."
Go
to: http://www.unc.edu/~ecanada/hilton5.html for even more historical information
on this area and time.
I want to take this story a bit further.
Fort Clark was a frontier forl located near the Texas town of Braketville just
off US-90. Just to give you an idea of the distances being discussed it was over
66-miles from Leakey and
the Apache Indian attack to Fort Clark. That is how far a group of settlers chased
the indians.
The Sierra del Burro Mountains of Mexico are across the river
from Big Bend National Park. Folks that is 300-miles west of Ft Clark. That means
the 27- Seminole Negro Scouts from Fort Clark chased the raiding Apache Indians
over 300 more miles when they took over the chase. It is totally amazing the things
that folks did on horseback back in 1881. Go back and read the story again then
imagine the distances these folks were traveling on horses.
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