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of larceny, and sentenced to fine and impri- 
sonment. 
About the first of May of the game year, a 
company of a hundred and seventy-five men, 
under one Col. Snively, was organized in the 
north of Texas, and set out from the settle- 
ments for the Santa Fé trace. It was at first 
reported that they contemplated a descent up- 
on Santa Fé; but their force was evidently 
too weak to attempt an invasion at that crisis. 
Their prime object, therefore, seems to have 
been to attack and make reprisals upon the 
Mexicans engaged in the Santa Fé trade, who 
were expected to cross the Prairies during the 
months of May and June. 
After the arrival of the Texans upon the 
Arkansas, they were joined by Col. Warfield 
with a few followers. This officer, with about 
twenty men, had some time previously at- 
tacked the village of Mora, on the Mexican 
frontier, killing five men (as was reported) 
and driving off a number of horses. They 
were afterwards followed by a party of Mexi- 
cans, however, who stampeded and carried 
away, not only their own horses, but those of 
the Texans. Being left afoot. the latter burned 
their saddles, and walked to Bent’s Fort, where 
they were disbanded; whence Warfield pass- 
ed to Snively’s camp, as before mentioned. 
The Texans now advanced along the Santa 
Fé road, beyond the sand hills south of the 
Arkansas, when they discovered that a party 
of Mexicans had passed towards the river. 
They soon came upon them, and a skirmish 
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