urn:taro:utexas.cah.00944 A Guide to the Hilory G. Bedford Reminiscences, undated Original EAD encoding by Jessi Fishman according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. April 2008 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Bedford, Hilory G. Hilory G. Bedford Reminiscences undated Materials are written in English. 1 volume Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Recollections of Bedford, Texas pioneer and author of Texas Indian Troubles (1905), regarding his activities and experiences on the nineteenth-century frontier include accounts of clothing, food, housing, uses of rawhide and buckskin, social life and etiquette, cowboys, and buffalo and deer hunting. Biographical Note

Hilory G. Bedford founded the town of Benjamin, Texas. Bedford, president and controlling stockholder in the Wichita and Brazos Stock Company, founded the town in 1885 and named it for his son Benjamin, who had been killed by lightning. To encourage settlement in the region, Bedford gave each of his twelve fellow stockholders a fifty-acre tract of land and set aside forty additional acres for a town square. He was instrumental in the organization of Knox County in 1886, with Benjamin as the county seat. The town received its first mail service in 1884; Bedford was postmaster.

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Recollections of Bedford regarding his activities and experiences on the nineteenth-century frontier include accounts of clothing, food, housing, uses of rawhide and buckskin, social life and etiquette, cowboys, and buffalo and deer hunting.

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Index Terms Subjects Bedford, Hilory G. Cowboys. Frontier and pioneer life. Hunting and fishing. Preferred Citation

Hilory G. Bedford Reminiscences, undated, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 2Q435 Reminiscences, undated