The Cross Timbers (20 page)

INDEX

Acers, Herbert: store of, in Navajoe,
53
,
54
,
60
,
120
,
161
; visit with, of Dales,
58
,
109–110
; mentioned,
77

Acers, Mattie Dale: as young girl,
7
,
8
,
10
,
32
,
33
; marriage of,
14
,
15
; books of,
48
,
56–57
; visit with, of Dales,
53
,
54
,
55
,
57
,
72
; mentioned,
120
,
161

Africa:
74

Alaska:
40
,
78

alcohol: use of,
171
,
172

“Ancient Mariner, The”:
48

animals: as used on farm,
11
,
65
,
67
; as wild game,
100
,
103
,
105
,
107
,
113
,
114

Anna, Miss: teaching of,
134–135

Antarctica:
78

“Antony-over”:
85–86

Arabella's Poor Relations
:
153

Arctic Circle:
62

Arkansas:
150

Atlanta Constitution
:
143

Atlantic Ocean:
74

Aurora, Texas:
59

Australia:
78
,
79

“authors”:
92

“bachelor's hall”: work in,
72
,
135
,
144
,
164
,
173

Baptist Church:
149
. S
EE ALSO
Denton Creek Church; Hardshell Baptist Church; Old School Baptist Church; Primitive Baptist Church

Baptist Young People's Union:
145

Barlow knife:
81

Bass, Sam:
19

Beal, Mr.:
173

Bear Creek:
116
,
117
,
147

Bebee, Gilbert:
47

Beecher, Henry Ward:
140

Bible, the: reading of,
47
,
80
,
144

birds: in the Cross Timbers,
109

blackland prairie:
5

“black man”:
41
,
88

Bleak House
:
57

“blindfold”:
151

“blindman's buff”:
149

Blodgett, Bill:
20
,
21
,
22

Blodgett, Jane:
20
,
147

Blodgett, Jap:
20
,
21
,
22

Blodgett, Mrs.:
21
,
22

Blodgett, Sarah Ellen:
20

Blodgett family, the:
47
,
96

Boone, Daniel:
108

Boone, Hubert:
133

Boone, Sumter,
96
,
133

“Boone P'int”:
96

Bourland, “Brother”:
17
,
143–144

Bourland Cemetery:
17

Bourland family, the:
31
,
96

books: S
EE
reading

Bowie, James:
175

Bowie, Texas:
59

“Boys Will Be Boys or a Harvest of Wild Oats”:
52

Braeme, Charlotte M.:
56

“Breakneck Farm or the Merriman Twins”:
52

“Bridal of Triermain”:
48

Briley, John:
32
,
67–68

Briley, Mattie:
32

Briley, Oscar:
32
,
74
,
93–96

Briley, Walter:
32
,
74
,
93–96

Briley family, the:
96
,
111
,
143

Broken Links and Southern Soldiers
:
48

Brown, Minnie: visit of,
76
,
77
,
147
,
164

Brown, Mrs.:
76

Bruce, Robert:
140

Bruin (cat):
50

Brushy Mound:
11

Brutus (
Julius Caesar
):
140

Bryant, William Cullen:
140

Byron, Lord:
140

Buffalo Bill:
108
,
160

“Buffalo Girls”:
150

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward:
57

California:
50
,
74
,
159

California Gold Rush:
3
,
72
,
160

Cassius (
Julius Caesar
):
140

Chandler, Mr.:
70
,
71
,
111
,
112

Chaney, Leona McCarty:
31

Chaney, Will:
31

checkers:
91

Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation:
168

children (in 1880's): manners of,
18
,
35–36
,
45
,
46
,
155
; chores of,
63
,
64
,
105
; leisure activities of,
80–81
,
82–83
,
113
,
147
,
165
; clothing of,
155–156

“Choice of Trades”:
152–153

Christian Endeavor:
145

“Cinderella”:
74

“ciphering match”:
138
,
139

Civil War: stories of,
56
,
144–145
; mentioned,
3
,
100
,
143
,
159

Clark, Ben:
26
,
30
,
93

Clark, Bill:
26
,
30
,
93

Clark, Effie:
147

Clark, “Fat”:
28

Clark, John: opinions of,
41–42
,
62
; fishing of,
121–122
; mentioned,
26
,
30

Clark, Mrs. (“Mariar”): property of,
27
,
28
; trip of,
28
,
30
,
31
; mentioned,
26
,
172

Clark, “Uncle” Jack: personality of,
26–27
,
28
,
166
; as neighbor,
170
,
171
; mentioned,
150

Clark family, the:
12
,
31
,
92
,
103
,
175

clothing (in 1880's):
36–37
,
155–156

Cody, William (Buffalo Bill):
160

“Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees”:
150

Comanch (horse):
67

Comanche Indians: reservation of,
53
,
58
,
109
; language of,
58
,
60

Cooke, John Esten:
56

Cooper, James Fenimore:
57

Copperfield, David:
140

corn: growing of,
54
,
67–74
passim

“corn-cob-battle”:
90

cotton: growing of,
21
,
54
,
67–74

passim,
77
,
79

Crockett, Davie:
175

crops: S
EE
farming

Cross Timbers: farms in,
4
,
12
,
20
,
89
,
167
,
168
; fauna and flora of,
5
,
6
,
100
,
109
,
114–115
; vernacular of,
22
,
70
,
112
,
129
,
132
,
136
,
157–158
; Dales leave,
147
,
159
,
163
,
166
,
175–176
. S
EE ALSO
children; clothing; education; food;
housing; Lower Cross Timbers; religion; social customs; Upper Cross Timbers

“Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight”:
152

Curtis, Miss Jennie:
127

Curtis, Sir Henry (
King Solomon's Mines
):
98

Dale, Alice. S
EE
Roach, Alice Dale

Dale, Ava Brown: as housekeeper,
75–76
,
164
; mentioned,
77
,
162

Dale, Baby Ora:
168
,
170
,
173

Dale, Fannie. S
EE
Hutchinson, Fannie Dale

Dale, Father: philosophy of,
7
,
62
,
80–81
,
98–99
,
165–166
; religion of,
31
,
59
,
72
,
143
,
144
; farming of,
44
,
69
,
167
; pioneering spirit of,
53–54
,
159
,
163
; in Navajoe,
55
,
162
,
168–169
; and hunting and fishing,
100–101
,
116
,
122

Dale, Frank:
4
,
12

Dale, George: relationship of, with Ed,
3
,
10
,
60
,
76
,
140–141
; and death of Mother,
15
,
16
,
17
,
18
; friends of,
20
,
148–149
; and Navajoe,
24
,
55
,
58
,
135
,
159
,
163
; work of,
44
,
62
,
69
,
72
,
80
,
135
,
164
; education of,
47
,
49
,
126–127
,
129
,
130
,
133–134
; play of,
50–51
,
77
,
78–79
,
93–96
; hunting and fishing of,
100–101
,
102
,
106
,
107
,
108
,
112
,
116
,
117
,
121–122
; mentioned,
4
,
7
,
8
,
22
,
27

Dale, Henry: in Nebraska,
4
,
12
,
14
; store of,
53
,
54
,
60
,
120
,
161
; claim of,
162
,
168–169
,
173
; mentioned,
3
,
48
,
58

Dale, Isaac:
4
,
160–161
,
163

Dale, Jay: youth of,
12–13
,
15
; in Navajoe,
53–54
,
55
,
162
,
168

Dale, John: youth of,
13
,
15
; in Navajoe,
55
,
75
,
122
,
162
; visit of, in Cross Timbers,
76
,
77
,
164
; mentioned,
48

Dale, Louisa Colley:
3

Dale, Lucy McCarty: marriage of,
12
; housekeeping help of,
16
,
17
,
72–73
; home of,
46
,
149
,
157
,
162
; Dales stay with,
59
,
60
,
67
,
112
,
148
; mentioned,
31
,
42
,
52

Dale, Mattie. S
EE
Acers, Mattie Dale

Dale, Mattie Counts Colley: girlhood of,
7–8
; death of,
15–18
; mentioned,
3

Dale, Tom: home of,
12
,
46
,
149
,
157
,
162
; Dales work for,
58
,
67
,
68
,
71
,
110–111
,
135
; Dales stay with,
59
,
60
,
113
,
148
; mentioned
17
,
52
,
106

Dale, Virginia White: marriage of,
162
; visit of,
168
,
169
,
173
; as housekeeper,
170
,
171

Dallas, Texas: Alice in,
12
,
58
; Browns in,
75
,
76
,
77
; mentioned,
5

dancing: attitudes toward,
149

“dare-base”:
88

Daugherty, Mr.:
69
,
70

David Copperfield
:
57

Davidson, Anna:
57

Denton, Elizabeth:
116

Denton, Henrietta:
116

Denton, Texas:
19
,
116

Denton Creek:
116