#eagle pass

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Desolation Row, Eagle Pass, Texas.

[rednblacksalamander]

Tensions on the border escalate between the Feds (very very bad) and the Texas National Guard (somehow even worse).

[tearsofrefugees]

Over 100,000 migrants encountered at southern border in September

In Texas Friday, NewsNation crews saw two different groups of over 100 people cross the border into the Eagle Pass area.

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From @jc_severance on X

[rabbitcruiser]

Benches/Chairs (No. 83)

Revelstoke, BC (two pics)

Craigellachie Station, Eagle Pass, BC

Hope, BC (five pics)

Vancouver, BC (two pics)

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[interpretingtexas]

The Battle of Dove Creek

The Kickapoo By the 1860s, the Kickapoo, who had originated in present day Illinois, were settled in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Uncomfortable with the ongoing American Civil War, several groups of the Kickapoo decided to go to Mexico, where they had been offered land in return for defending the area. Late in 1864, three groups of Kickapoo started south from Kansas. Among them was No-ko-aht, who would later recount what happened on that journey.

Indiens Kikapoos, Présentés á S.M. Maximilien 1t. |  Indios Kikapoos, Presentados á S.M. Maximiliano  1o. 1865. | Indian  Kikapoos, Presented to H.M. Maximilien 1. Propiedad del editores.| Lit Decaen y Debray, editores, México, Portal del Coliseo Viejo. | A group of Kickapoo and runaway slaves being  presented at the court of the Austrian Archduke Emperor of Mexico  Maximilian. [source]

Confederate Mistakes In December of 1864, a Confederate scouting party found an abandoned Kickapoo campsite about 20 miles southwest of present-day San Angelo. The state militia and a unit of Confederate regulars were dispatched to deal with what were assumed to be hostile Indians. Lack of communication plagued the Confederates from the beginning of the operation. The militia was delayed and the Confederate regulars set out without them. The regulars found the Native camp on Dove Creek, though they erroneously assumed them to be Kiowa or Comanche. When the militia arrived on January 8th, the regulars had already begun plans to attack. The militia, though exhausted from the forced march, was quickly incorporated into the plan. The attack was carried out despite seeing no signs of hostility from the village. Unfortunately for the Confederates, the Kickapoo had carefully selected their campsite and held a good defensive position on the high ground.

Battle Though the Kickapoo were peaceful towards the Texans, they were well prepared to defend themselves and an estimated 400 to 600 Kickapoo easily repelled the not quite 500 Confederates. The Confederates split into several sections, with one capturing the Kickapoo horses and another two attacking the camp from opposite sides. The battle raged for most of the day. The Kickapoo were able to repulse every attack on their camp, though not without casualties, including women and children. After nightfall, the Kickapoo recaptured some of their horses from the Confederates and the Confederates retreated from the battlefield. After spending several freezing days in their camp, the Confederates would retreat back east.

Aftermath The Confederates reported 22 dead and 19 wounded and estimated that the Kickapoo had suffered over one hundred casualties, though the Kickapoo themselves reported 12 dead in the fight and 2 who later died from wounds. Brig. Gen. McAdoo later investigated what had happened, and his report was scathing. 

"The evidences seemed abundant to all with whom I have conversed that they were civilized Indians and there was nothing discovered that led to the belief that they were unfriendly, further than the simple fact that they were Indians traveling upon the soil of Texas without any notice being given to the civil or military authorities of the country...A brief conversation was had between the two commanders, after which, without any council of war, without any distribution of orders...without any communication with the Indians or inquiry as to what tribe or party they belonged to, without any knowledge of their strength or position, the command 'forward' was given, and a pell-mell charge was made for three miles...No fire was made by the Indians until after they were fired upon...An Indian went out from the encampment with two children...unarmed, with his hands raised, and told Captain Fosset that they were friendly Indians. Fosset told the Indian he recognized no friendly Indians in Texas... and thereupon ordered him shot, which was done. He also, it is said, ordered the children shot, but the men interposed and they were taken as prisoners." You can read the whole report in the War of the Rebellion records, vol 48, Part 1, pages 26-30.

The Kickapoo continued on their way to Mexico, unable to even stop and bury their dead. They later sent a message to the Texas army repeating their friendly intentions and suggesting that the men who attacked them were lawless and not authorized by the government. McAdoo worried that, without an explanation to the Kickapoo by the government and a treaty with them, they would "return to avenge their losses in the attack." McAdoo proved correct. The unprovoked attack at Dove Creek had enraged the Kickapoo and would lead to years of raids on Texas settlers. An expedition by the 4th US Calvary in 1873 to punish the Kickapoo would more or less bring an end to the raids. Many of the Kickapoo returned to the US after the Civil War was over. Some returned to Kansas while others settled in Oklahoma. Today, the Kickapoo are one of only three federally recognized tribes in Texas. They have a small reservation on the border with Mexico just outside Eagle Pass, in addition to those in Kansas and Oklahoma.

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In 1943, the wives of US soldiers stationed at Fort Duncan in Eagle Pass, Texas were shopping in nearby Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico when they arrived at a restaurant, The Victory Club, that had just closed for the day. The maître d', Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya, made a snack for them using what he had available in the kitchen: tortillas and cheese. He cut the tortillas into triangles, fried them, added shredded cheddar cheese, quickly heated them, added sliced pickled jalapeño peppers, and served them. When asked what the dish was called, he answered "Nacho's especiales." Word of the dish traveled, and its popularity quickly spread throughout Texas and the Southwest. As it did, the apostrophe was lost and Nacho's "specials" became "special nachos."

Anaya went on to work at the Moderno Restaurant in Piedras Negras, which today still uses the original recipe, and later opened his own restaurant, Nacho's Restaurant, in Piedras Negras. After his death in 1975, a bronze plaque was created in his honor in Piedras Negras and October 21 was declared International Day of the Nacho.