23 R. L. Jones (contributor), "Folk Life in Early Texas: The Auto-
biography of Andrew Davis," The
Southwestern
Historical
Quarterly,
XLIII, 332, 333. Apparently Fort Lyday was built by the cooperative
effort of the pioneers of the area. The fact that the fort was down Sulphur
River some eight or ten miles from the home of Daniel Davis indicates
that it was on or near Lyday's land, and the further fact that the buffalo
sometimes came down to the fort and mixed with the cattle would cause
one to surmise that it was on the prairie north of the Sulphur River
bottom.
