JAMES COX was an author who published a dozen worked, mostly of a descriptive l character: "An Arkansas Eden" (St. Louis: 1885); "Omaha Revisited" (St. Louis: 1889); "St. Louis Through a Camera" (St. Louis: 1892); "Old and New St. Louis" (St. Louis: 1894); "The Carnival City of the World;" 'Missouri of the Word's Fair" (Chicago: 1893); "Our Own Country" (St. Louis: 1894); "Won in the Losing" (New York: 1894); "History of the Cattle Industry of Texas and the Southwest" (St. Louis: 1895,) and others. He was the secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company from 1898 to 1901.

Cox writes:
"LESS fortunate than the pioneers of other portions of the West, the early cattlemen of Texas were forced to contend not alone with the wild tribes which originally inhabited the lands they coveted, but from time to time their homes and herds were raided by the remnants of the warlike nations of the Eastern forests, held by the United States Government, under a pretense of restraint, on the borders of the Lone Star State. Historians agree that few depredations were committed by Indians upon the persons and property of the first American colonists introduced by Moses and Stephen Austin, under the Spanish and Mexican regimes, while practically the last raids made upon Texan soil were by bands from the reservations north of the Red River. With a foe that they could follow and chastise in his own retreat the Texan cattlemen knew how to deal; but they were powerless when annoyed by bands that could evade pursuit and find safety amid the peaceful surroundings of a Government Agency."

Originally published in 1895; reformatted for the Kindle; may contain an occasional imperfection; original spellings have been kept in place.