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Lance Lovelace, a Texas cowman, I had not yet attained my majority,
while he was over sixty. Though not a native of Texas, "Uncle
Lance" was entitled to be classed among its pioneers, his parents
having emigrated from Tennessee along with a party of Stephen F.
Austin's colonists in 1821. The colony with which his people
reached the state landed at Quintana, at the mouth of the Brazos
River, and shared the various hardships that befell all the early
Texan settlers, moving inland later to a more healthy locality.
Thus the education of young Lovelace was one of privation. Like
other boys in pioneer families, he became in turn a hewer of wood
or drawer of water, as the necessities of the household required,
in reclaiming the wilderness. When Austin hoisted the new-born Lone
Star flag, and called upon the sturdy pioneers to defend it, the
adventurous settlers came from every quarter of the territory, and
among the first who responded to the call to arms was young Lance
Lovelace. After San Jacinto, when the fighting was over and the
victory won, he laid down his arms, and returned to ranching with
the same zeal and energy. The first legislature assembled voted to
those who had borne arms in behalf of the new republic, lands in
payment for their services. With this land scrip for his pay, young
Lovelace, in company with others, set out for the territory lying
south of the Nueces. They were a band of daring spirits. The
country was primitive and fascinated them, and they remained. Some
settled on the Frio River, though the majority crossed the Nueces,
many going as far south as the Rio Grande.
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