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It was a wicked time... Comanches were advancing on new Texians settling farmland. The Mormons, who had captivated the Comanches and other Indians around Central Texas had been put there by Stephen F. Austin’s people.
Everybody around Austin parts were agitated with the Mormons, led by a pariah of the Utah Command, who set about the rivery areas of Austin, hundred miles radius of, making furniture and roofing shingles out of ancient Cypress trees using their mills they operated on creeks and springs.
The Mormons made such headway in securing .gov contracts, and operated mills one after the other as they were chased out of town up the Colorado River. Native Texan women were naturally worried that their polygamy proselytizing would spread to their own men and churches.
But the Indians were fascinated by the Mormons, who were placed in buffer zones between Austin’s people and the Comanch, that the Texas Rangers were able to swoop in and eradicate the last of the fighting Comanch in 1873 in what is now near Liberty Hill and Bertram.
The point being, once our Rangers were deployed, the enemy was wiped out quickly. We are now at the point of IDing the enemy. The eradication force awaits orders. They will have assistance from civilians.