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Historical feature -- Part 2
Staking a claim and recording property boundaries brought numerous challenges -- some deadly
Editor’s note: Lampasas historian Jeff Jackson has researched a number of history topics. The following tells of an early-day surveying expedition that encountered a large band of Comanches on the frontier northwest of Austin.
In the summer of 1838, Albert Silsbee and Milton Hicks were in a shallow…