Robert Neighbors
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title:
Robert Neighbors
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Robert Simpson Neighbors was an Indian agent and Texas state legislator. Known as a fair and determined protector of Indian interests as guaranteed by treaty, he was murdered by a white man named Cornet, whose brother-in-law had been defamed by Neighbors, accusing the brother-in-law a common horse thief, responsible for stealing horses from the reservation Indians. When Neighbors refused to recant the accusation in front of the two men, Cornet shot Neighbors with a shotgun. Cornet was murdered a
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Texas politician and Indian agent (1815-1859)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Neighbors
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2023-12-21T06:28:25Z
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