This volume, first published in 1889, is one of the most thorough accounts of Indian warfare in Texas.

Reliable accounts of battles, wars, adventures, forays, murders, and massacres together with biographical sketches of many of the most noted Indian fighters and frontiersmen of Texas.

The book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.

"Indian Depredations in Texas" is the most thorough compilation of accounts of Indian warfare in the19th century Texas. It is an excellent sourcebook for those seeking to discover the truth about the early days of settling Texas. The author chronicled the true story of life in early Texas. The struggle between the settlers, who sought to tame the land and the Native Americans who ruled the land, were waged on a daily basis. The results were often conflicts and clashes which were described in detail in this volume.

Reliable accounts of battles, wars, adventures, forays, murders, and massacres together with biographical sketches of many of the most noted Indian fighters and frontiersmen of Texas.