The Cross Timbers (21 page)

Denton Creek Church:
101
,
102
,
144

Denton County, Texas:
143

Diana:
108

Dickens, Charles:
57
,
140

Dick Onslow among the Indians
:
49–50
,
74

Disinherited Knight, the:
140

Doan's Crossing:
59

Dodge City, Kansas:
53

dominoes:
92

Doré, Paul Gustave:
48

Doubting Castle (
Pilgrim's Progress
):
48

“draw-base”:
85
,
86

“drop the handkerchief”:
152

education (in 1880's): in Navajoe,
57
,
134–135
; attendance and,
121
,
126
,
129
,
133
,
134
,
138
; schoolhouse for,
126–129
; subjects in,
127–130
; competitions in,
129
,
131–132
,
133
,
138
,
139
,
152
; military drill in,
130–131
,
134
; lunches and,
132
; interference with, by farming,
134
,
135
,
141
; discipline in,
136–138
; value of,
142
; literary societies in,
152
,
153

Eliot, George:
57

Elston family:
22

England:
74

Epworth League:
145

Ernest (
Swiss Family Robinson
):
50

Everett, Edward:
140

Eye That Never Sleeps, The
:
48

“Face on the Bar Room Floor, The”:
152

Falstaff (
Henry IV
):
140

Farm and Fireside, The
:
49
,
50–51
,
92

farming: clearing of land for,
8–9
,
11–12
,
63–64
,
72
,
163
; animals used in,
11
,
65
,
67
; variety of crops in,
36–37
,
73–74
; harvesting in,
54
,
64
,
67–71
passim;
tools for,
63–64
,
65
,
67
; expenses of,
71
,
75
,
168
,
169
,
170
,
173
; work of,
73–74
,
77
,
164
; value of crops in,
74–75
,
169–170
; interference of, with education,
134
,
135
,
141
; in Prairie West,
161
. S
EE ALSO
specific crops

Fedora (cat):
50

fishing: method of,
117–121
passim,
124
; when done,
117
,
118–119
; superstitions about,
118
,
124
; type of,
119–120
,
122
; benefits of,
124–125
; mentioned,
71

F. M. Lupton Company:
56

food: preservation of,
10
,
37–38
,
39
,
42–43
,
44
,
165
; source of,
13
,
36
,
37
,
39
,
44
,
71
; types of,
30
,
38–39
,
41–44
passim
; for various meals,
35
,
44–45
,
71
,
125
,
132
,
153–154
; for various seasons,
39
,
41
,
45
; cooking of,
39–40
,
64
,
72
; mentioned,
109

Fort Griffin, Texas: Dales in,
12–13
,
14–15

Fort Worth, Texas: nature of,
14
,
163
; trip to,
52
,
54
; mentioned,
96
,
100

Fort Worth and Denver Railway:
54
,
59

Fourth of July picnic:
153–154

France:
30

Francis (
Swiss Family Robinson
):
50

French harp:
82

Fritz (
Swiss Family Robinson
):
50

fruit: growing of,
11
,
64
,
74–75
,
76
,
170

“fruit basket”:
149

games: stories and,
73–74
; toys for,
81–83
,
97
,
99
,
136
; playmates in,
92
; at school,
135–136
; play-party,
149–150
,
151
. S
EE ALSO
play; toys; specific games

Georgia:
143

Germany:
82

Giant Despair (
Pilgrim's Progress
):
48

Gold Rush:
3
,
72
,
160

Goldsmith, Oliver:
140

Good News
:
52

Gray, Grandma:
156

Gray, Thomas:
140

Grayson County, Texas:
26
,
30

Greer County, Texas: Dales visit,
54
,
67
,
134
,
162
,
163
; nature of,
109–110
,
175
; Dales move to,
166–167
; mentioned,
53
,
58
,
77

guns: Civil War musket,
100–101
,
107–108
,
112–113
,
173
; ammunition for,
101
,
113
; shotgun,
108–109
,
111
; Kentucky squirrel rifle,
111–112
,
174
; “Zulu,”
174

Haggard, H. Rider:
51

Hal, Prince:
140

Hanley, England:
46

Hardshell Baptist Church:
31
,
143

“Harold the Dauntless”:
48

Hawthorne, Nathaniel:
57

Hay, Mary Cecil:
56

Henrietta, Texas:
58–59
,
162

Henrietta Creek: fishing in,
116
,
117
,
119–122
passim,
125

Hiawatha:
140

“hide-and-seek”:
73
,
88–90
,
97

History of Texas
:
175

History of the United States
:
48

“Hog Drovers”:
150

Hohner harmonica:
82

Homestead Act:
4

Hood, Thomas:
140

horseshoes:
91

housing: furnishings for,
9
,
10
,
40
,
41
,
45–46
,
73
,
77
; rooms in,
9
,
10
,
40
,
48
; types of,
22
,
31
,
55
,
78
; facilities in,
164–165

Houston, Sam:
175

Howard, “Brother”:
144

“How-many-miles-to-Miley Bright?”:
90–91

“How We Tried to Lick the Teacher”:
152

Hugo, Victor:
57

“hull gull”:
91–92

hunting: in Parker County,
71
,
111
; in Cross Timbers,
102–107
,
114–115
; in Greer County,
109–110
; in Prairie West,
174
; mentioned,
117

Hurst, Ted:
157–158

Hussey, Albert:
127

Hutchinson, Fannie Dale: in Nebraska,
4
,
12
,
82
; visit of,
52
,
53
; mentioned,
161

Hutchinson, Mace:
52
,
53
,
161

Indians: in Navajoe,
58
,
60
,
102
; in play,
50
,
74
; on reservations,
53
,
58
,
109
,
168
; language of,
58
,
60
; mentioned,
14

Irving, George Washington:
140

“I spy”:
88
,
90

“Jack and the Beanstalk”:
74

Jackson, Stonewall:
56

James (
Swiss Family Robinson
):
50

Kansas:
160

Keller, Texas: location of,
13
,
14
,
20
,
116
,
147
; train to,
33
,
54
,
111
; churches of,
143
,
144
; mentioned,
16
,
51
,
107
,
170
,
172

Keller School: attendance at,
24
,
130
,
134
,
135
,
141
; description of,
126–129
,
131
,
136
; discipline at,
133
; as social center,
152

Kemp, Bob:
24
,
96

Kentucky:
3

Key, the (
Pilgrim's Progress
):
48

King Solomon's Mines
:
51–52
,
98–99

Kiowa-Comanche Indian Reservation:
53
,
58
,
109

labor. S
EE
work

“Lady of the Lake”:
48

language: in Cross Timbers vernacular,
22
,
70
,
112
,
129
,
132
,
136
,
157–158
; of Comanches,
58
,
60
; of the South,
67

“last-one-on-wood-is-a-bear”:
88
,
146

“Lay of the Last Minstrel”:
48

Leverett, Miss Julia: teaching of,
130–135
passim

Leverett, Professor: teaching of,
130–135
passim

Lincoln, Nebraska:
4

literary societies:
152–153

“Little Brass Wagon”:
150

Little Harriet Creek:
116

Little Nell:
140

“Little Red Ridinghood”:
72

Lochinvar:
140
,
161

Lone Star Schoolhouse:
126

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth:
48
,
140

Long X Ranch:
15

Lopp, Uncle Bill:
32–33
,
72

Lord Lisle's Daughter
:
57

“Lord of the Isles”:
48

Lower Cross Timbers: description of,
4–6
,
8–10
. S
EE ALSO
Cross Timbers

McCain, Oscar:
133–134

McCarty family, the:
7
,
31
,
39

McCrory family, the:
68
,
69

McGuffey, William: readers of,
48
,
130
,
138
,
139–140

McKelvey, “Brother”:
143
,
144–145

McMakin, “Brother”:
143
,
144

Madame Arles (cat):
50

Mad Passion, a
:
57

manners: of children,
18
,
155
; at mealtime,
35–36
,
46

marbles:
73
,
81
,
97
,
146

Mark Antony (
Julius Caesar
):
140

“Marmion”:
48

Marrying a Poetess
:
153

Marshall Branch Creek: fishing in,
116–117
,
119–120

Mast, Crowell, and Kirkpatrick:
49
,
51

Mayes, Bill:
96
,
133

Meakin dishes:
46

Methodist Church:
143
,
149

Mexico: Jay Dale in,
15
,
53

military drill: in school,
130–131
,
134

“Miller Boy, The”:
150

Mill on the Floss
:
57

Minneapolis, Minnesota:
14

Minor, Professor: teaching of,
135–138
,
141

Missionary Baptists:
143

Missouri: Dales in,
3
,
4
,
100
,
160
; stories of,
7–8
; food of,
36

Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad:
5
,
13

Missouri River:
3
,
160

Mohun
:
56

money: cash outlay of,
36–37
; for labor,
71
; saving of,
163–164

Moore, Professor: teaching of,
127
,
128–129

Moore family, the:
75

mottoes: use of, in education,
138

Mount Gilead School:
152
,
153

“Mr. Buster”:
150

Mulkey, Willie: discipline of,
136–138

mumble-peg:
97–98

Navajoe, Texas: Acers-Dale store in,
53
,
54
,
60
,
120
,
161
; school in,
57
,
134–135
; Dale's visit to,
58
,
134–135
,
148
,
161
,
162
; John Dale in,
77–78
; Henry Dale in,
110
,
168
; advantages of,
167–168