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BOOK I Conflict on the Prairies THEprairies stretching from the wooded banks of the forks of the Trinity, and sweeping on beyond to the Red River, were sources of nourishment and power to the prairie Indians and to the invading white man; but they were also areas of conflict. The conflict over the land, from the forks of this river and the upper Brazos northeastward to the Red River, lasted from the early years of 1700 until 1845. Spaniards and Frenchmen, Spaniards and Englishmen, Spaniards and Americans, Texans of the Republic and citizens of the United States, each in his day, vied with one another to control the prairie Indians, for the Indian trade provided white men with riches and nations with an empire. This conflict of a century and a half is a part of the robustly romantic history of Fort Worth and Tarrant County. ...

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