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This
souvenir magazine of Jack County is compiled for the county by Gilbert Webb, for
the purpose of preserving the occasion of the re-enactment of the Indian Trial
and to give the
visitor
here July 4 and 5 a clear picture of those events as they happened.
It is repetition to mention many of the interesting
events that have had their beginning or important development in Jock County,
however, it is of prime importance to mention that this county has had a very
colorful history.
She was known as “The Mother County of the West”
for a number of years before Young, Throckmorton and other counties to the West
were organized. This was the nearest section of court jurisdiction to that vast
waste of country over-run by the raiding Red Men. It was into this place that
many of the offending criminals were brought to stand trial. It was here that
much of the records of lands and other nature were brought for recording.
Jack
County followed Gainesville in this phase of work.
As
is mentioned elsewhere in this booklet, the county was created in 1856 and
organized in 1857. Its pages of history are splattered with the blood of a hardy
people. Its evolution is designated by strong efforts of its generation and clan
that knew not defeat. Blood chilling yelps of the Red Men drove scores of people
back into the Parker, Tarrant, Dallas County area. Many never returned. Some
did. Several old timers were born in covered wagons either on the way out here
or on the way back while parents were trying to evade the Indians. When the
trouble was settled in about 1875, many of them returned.