No homeseekers were ever plagued with more bad luck than those who
followed the Englishman John Charles Beales to southern Texas late
in 1834. On the banks of Las Moras Creek, not far from the Rio
Grande, they established the colony of Dolores. Among them were the
British-born Sarah Ann Horn and her husband and two small sons. For
the pretty Sarah Ann, who shared her neighbors' fear of Comanche
raids, the year or so in Dolores was a preview of a special hell to
come. The threat of an invasion by Santa Anna, an uncongenial
climate, a lack of trees for lumber, an unnavigable river, crop
failures, and a scarcity of commodities contributed to the
colonists' discouragement and discord.
In "Comanche Bondage" the distinguished southwestern historian
Carl Coke Rister has written the history of the Dolores enterprise,
drawing on Beale's journals and other documents, and including
reports of the survivors. Leaving Dolores in the wake of news about
the Alamo and Goliad disasters, the Horn family and their neighbors
the Harrises headed toward Matamoras. They never arrived there.
Later a broken Sarah Ann Horn told the horrifying story of the
murder of the men and of the years of captivity she and Mrs. Harris
and their children endured at the hands of the Comanches. Rister
has edited and annotated her 1839 narrative, which complements and
extends his account of Beales's folly.
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