The Bears of Moro

Larry Webb

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In the author’s first book, From Moro to Bluff Creek—Part 1, published in 2014, the author shares an assemblage of unique Moro stories, all garnered while living at Moro, Texas, all the while observing how one decision or lack of decision seemed to have set a new experience into motion. In the author’s second book, Toyah Medicine Woman of Bluff Creek—Part 2, published in 2017, the author returns to Moro again—this time through the life of a Toyah Native American medicine woman who also lived at Moro, albeit some eight hundred years prior to the author, in prehistory.
In his current book, The Bears of Moro—Part 3, the author focuses again on Moro while exploring the recent and prehistoric past while sharing more of the author’s unpublished experiences and bringing more depth to the story of the Toyah Native Americans, which brings us to the subject of bears. You the reader will learn that in the time of the Toyah, one thousand years ago, Moro had a thriving population of grizzly bears; and the Toyahs came to Moro to take these bears, in a rite of passage for aspiring want-to-be warriors.
This book introduces new Moro stories, not previously published, yet experienced by the author and stories taken from small ledger books handwritten in the late 1800s about the Civil War by a neighborhood veteran of the Civil War, John Joseph Vernon. Vernon’s ledger books tell stories in his unique vernacular of his growing up in the 1850s and 1860s experiencing the horrors of a civil war and facing an even worse reconstruction. The author simply transcribes the stories from Vernon’s handwritten notes, making small grammatical changes only when absolutely necessary, yet keeping the writing style of Vernon intact and to the period.
The Comanche Native Americans also lived in Moro, simultaneously with the arrival of the author’s great-grandparents in 1879. The author, having read dozens of books regarding the Comanche Native Americans, became fascinated with Comanche life on the Southern Plains. He read stories of captured Comanche slaves such as Cynthia Ann Parker who became so enamored with her Comanche life such that when returned to her original white family, she still pined away to return to her Comanche family, refusing to eat and dying a slow, painful death.
The author also learned that Comanche males only have one career path—take care of the horses as a youth, become a skillful raider capturing more horses as a young adult, and finally return to the Comanche homelife on the Comanche horse ranches as an older adult, somewhat used up following Comanche life as a raider. The author takes his knowledge of Comanche lore and pens his original story connected to historical places and events—presenting how life may have been for a Comanche family living at Moro and adjusting to the arrival of the European settlers in the 1850s.
Spending even more time in an archaeological excavation of an actual Toyah encampment at Moro, the author’s findings reveal further insights into the Toyah culture and how their lives were often justified while engaging the ferocious bears at Moro. Taken together, these findings generate more information on many issues regarding the Toyahs while at Moro; yet at the same time, these findings also pose unanswered questions that perhaps could be explored with less direct means or psychic channeling. Consequently, the author obtains the services of four psychic mediums to assist in his evaluation. These psychic channelings reveal more unique information regarding these Toyahs and their lives at Moro.
So come take this journey with the author, a thousand years in the making, and witness how various lives were impacted, shaped, and molded, all within this unique community of Moro. This journey and these events are all based upon the archaeological records, psychic readings, historical records, and events that occurred to the author while living at Moro.

Sujets

• Science Fiction
• Serie
• Series
• Moro
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 13 avril 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669873884
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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THE BEARS OF MORO
Part 3
From the Moro to Bluff Creek Series
Larry Webb

 
Copyright © 2023 by Larry Webb.
Library of Congress Control Number:
2023907078
ISBN:
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978-1-6698-7390-7

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978-1-6698-7389-1

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978-1-6698-7388-4
 
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
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Rev. date: 04/13/2023
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Introduction
 
Chapter 1:The Boogeyman Is Killed at Moro
Chapter 2:A Near Drowning at Moro
Chapter 3:It’s My Sunday to Feed the Preacher
Chapter 4:The Duesenberg of Moro
Chapter 5:Damn Yankees
Chapter 6:The McIver Mystique
Chapter 7:Excavating a Prehistoric Toyah Encampment at Moro
Part 1—Toyah Channeling (March 2018) with Lauri and Cassandra
Part 2—Toyah Channeling (July 2018) with Lauri and Betsabe
Part 3—Toyah Channeling (September 2018) with Lauri and Betsabe
Part 4—Toyah Channeling (October 2019) with Lauri and Cassandra
Chapter 8:The Bears of Moro
Chapter 9:Indians on the Devils River
Chapter 10:Feral Pigs Occupy Moro
Chapter 11:My Uncle Clay McIver
Chapter 12:On the Road to Texarkana
Chapter 13:Passing the Enemy without Fighting
Chapter 14:All the Soldiers Are Not Shooting?
Chapter 15:An Evening with a Sniper at Moro
Chapter 16:Touring with Bruce
Chapter 17:America’s Civil War
Part 1—A Civil War Love Story
Part 2—A Civil War Story of Fighting Yankees
Part 3—A Civil War Story of Sleeping on a Mule
Part 4—A Civil War Story of the War Is Over
Chapter 18:Comanches
Part 1—Nacomah Comes of Age
Part 2—Nacomah Finds the Comanche Raiders
Part 3—The Penateka Comanches Move against the Texans
Part 4—The Penateka Comanches Plan the Great Raid
INTRODUCTION
Moro, located adjacent to the Callahan Divide in west-central Texas gives birth to three major streams—Bluff Creek, Flag Creek, and Elmott Creek from west to east. It is given its initial glance by European Americans arriving in the early 1850s in the form of buffalo hunters with their long-range Sharps rifles, seeking to harvest the seemingly unlimited supply of buffalo, available in Moro during the winter months. These hunters with their teams of shooters, skinners, and freighters arrive with purpose as they are earning enticing wages for the times, supplying the unrelenting demand for buffalo robes back east. These hunters arrive in late fall, harvest buffalo, take the hides from the skinners, and transport these hides a short ten-mile jaunt north over the Callahan Divide to nearby Buffalo Gap to sell their hides to buyers who came for that purpose.

Moro, Texas (Looking South toward Flattop Mountain)
(Author Photo)
Some of these buffalo hunters noticed that Moro offered that melting pot combining two unique ecosystems: the rolling hills of the Edwards Plateau and the grasslands of the Southern Plains. It presented an abundance of oak tree mottes and pecan trees among rolling hills separated by flowing spring-fed creeks with deep prairie grasses, belly-deep on a horse. When the European American westward expansion of buffalo hunters observed this rich, diverse ecosystem and what Moro had to offer—wood for construction and warmth, diverse wildlife including unending streams of buffalo arriving each fall, ample water essential for life, fertile soils, adequate rainfall, and a mild climate—what else could anyone want? It was heaven on earth. Clear some trees, build a home, replace the buffalo with better European cattle and you would have the perfect stock farm. So they began to settle, build their homes, and raise their families. Thus begins the American dream. Moro, Texas, begins.
One of the first published cases of actual settlement at Moro involved Major Griffith who noticed what was available at Moro on Bluff Creek in 1873 during his service as a Texas Ranger, serving south of Lawn and north of Camp Colorado or Coleman. Following his service in the Civil War and dealing with Carpetbaggers who had killed his brother back in Arkansas, Major Ellis Ringold Griffith fled to Comanche, Texas, and began service with the Texas Rangers. During his service there while protecting settlers, Major Griffith observed Moro’s attributes and quickly decided to quit his Rangering, leave Comanche, and bring his wife, Ella Goble, and settle at Moro on Bluff Creek and start their family. (As a side note, Ranger Griffith also delivered John Wesley Hardin from Comanche to Austin to stand trial and account for Hardin’s many murders. Griffith found Hardin to be a “likable and friendly sort” when questioned by a reporter from the Winters Enterprise in 1933.)
The following map of Moro indicates where the many settlers who eventually join up with Major Griffith are illustrated:

Moro and Vicinity
(Author’s Sketch)
Settlements at Moro continued to increase in momentum following the Civil War in the late 1870s and exploded after the arrival of the new railroad tracks to nearby Abilene in 1880. The author’s family, the Floyds, settled in Moro between Flag Creek and Elmott Creek, arriving from Kentucky in 1879. The author was born into this Floyd family at Moro in 1945, he being the fourth-generation Floyd. Growing up in Moro, the author begins to realize that his group of European settlers were not the first humans to discover Moro. The cultural presence of the Spanish and many Native American artifacts proved that others had settled in Moro including the Clovis, Plainview, Dalton, Darl, Pedernales, Toyah, Apache, and Comanche Indians.
In the author’s first book, From Moro to Bluff Creek—Part 1 , published in 2014, the author shares an assemblage of unique Moro stories, all garnered while growing up at Moro, Texas, all the while observing how one decision or lack of decision seemed to have set a new experience into motion. In the author’s second book, Toyah Medicine Woman of Bluff Creek—Part 2 , published in 2017, the author returns to Moro again—this time through the life of a Toyah Native American medicine woman who also lived at Moro, albeit some six hundred years prior to the author, in prehistory.
In his current book, The Bears of Moro—Part 3 , the author returns to Moro again exploring the recent and prehistoric past while sharing more of the author’s unpublished experiences and bringing more depth to the story of the Toyah Native Americans, which brings us to the subject of bears . You the reader will learn that in the time of the Toyah, one thousand years ago, Moro had a thriving population of brown bears; and the Toyah Native Americans came to Moro to take these bears, in a rite of passage for aspiring want-to-be warriors.
This book introduces new Moro stories, not previously published, yet experienced by the author and stories taken from small ledger books handwritten in the late 1800s about the Civil War by a neighborhood veteran of the Civil War, John Joseph Vernon. Vernon’s ledger books tell stories in his unique vernacular of his growing up in the 1850s and 1860s experiencing the horrors of a civil war and facing an even worse reconstruction. The author simply transcribes the stories from Vernon’s handwritten notes, making small grammatical changes only when absolutely necessary, yet keeping the writing style of Vernon intact and to the period.
The Comanche Native Americans also lived in Moro, simultaneously with the arrival of the author’s great-grandparents in 1879. The author, having read dozens of books regarding the Comanche Native Americans, became fascinated with Comanche life on the Southern Plains. He read stories of captured Comanche slaves such as Cynthia Ann Parker who became so enamored with her Comanche life such that when returned to her original white family, she still pined away to return to her Comanche family, refusing to eat and dying a slow, painful death.
The author also learned that Comanche males only have one career path—take care of the horses as a youth, become a skillful raider capturing more horses as a young adult, and finally return to the Comanche homelife on the Comanche horse ranches as an older adult, somewhat used up following Comanche life as a raider. The author takes his knowledge of Comanche lore and pens his original story connected to historical places and events—presenting how life may have been for a Comanche family living at Moro and adjusting to the arrival of the European settlers in the 1850s.
Spending even more time in an archaeological excavation of an actual Toyah encampment at Moro, the author’s findings reveal further insights into the Toyah culture and how their lives were often justified while engaging the ferocious bears at Moro. Taken together, these findings generate more information on many issues regardin