Last Stand of
the Texas Cherokees
Chief Bowles and the 1839
Cherokee War in Texas
by Stephen L. Moore

224 pages, 5.5” x 8.5” format
39 color and 30 black and white images
RAM Books, May 2009

$18.95 soft cover

Last Stand of the Texas Cherokees details the migration of Chief Bowles' band of Western Cherokees into Texas and their subsequent struggles to obtain land rights from the Mexican and Texas governments. Bowles' Cherokees and twelve other affiliated Indian tribes ultimately chose to fight a strong force of Texas Rangers, Texas Army and militiamen in July 1839. Nearly 170 years later, author Stephen L. Moore and a team of Garrett metal detectorists return to pinpoint the site of the Battle of the Neches.

Moore, who descends from both the Cherokee and ancestors who fought in this conflict on the side of the Texan military forces, traces the early years of Chief Bowles and his people. He also presents an exhaustive account of the failed peace negotiations leading up to the final frontier engagements in which Bowles was killed and his people were driven from Texas.

The latter portion of the book details the author's efforts to pinpoint the Cherokee battlefield using metal detectors. Musket balls, arrowheads and other artifacts from the Neches battleground were donated to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco and to the American Indian Culture Society which preserves the final battleground of Chief Bowles.

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To order a personalized copy of Last Stand, please follow the steps below.

1. Please mail a check made out to Steve Moore for the appropriate amount. $18.95 (Texas residents add 8.25% tax.)
Shipping and Handling: Please add $4.00 for the first book and $1.00 for each additional book which is shipped at the same time. Books will be mailed out via the U.S. Post Office.
2. Please indicate any special message (such as a gift for someone else) that you would like written in your book. Checks should be mailed to:

Steve Moore
995 Hondo Road
Lantana, Texas 76226

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