30 Record
1894
,
No. 4, Original
United
States
vs. The
State
of
Texas,
1256, 1257, 1321. Hereafter this testimony will be referred to as Greer
County
Record.
The testimony of R. H. Burnett and Thomas F. Ragsdale
in the Greer County case indicates that the Chihuahua Traders came from
Fort Towson by the mouth of the Kiamichi River and by Pinhook (which
was just east of the site of Paris). That this party of merchants who
came in 1840 found or opened a road through the points mentioned makes
it certain that Stell's survey in this area was either along or near a
traveled road.
