Peace Policy

ID: 850 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

This file appears in: Barnard's Trading Post

Transactions between Torrey Trading Houses and Indians in Texas served as a vital part of Sam Houston’s peace policy in the nineteenth century. This letter instructs the trading house to pay Jim Shaw of the Delaware tribe with $345 of merchandise charged to the government.

This file appears in: Barnard's Trading Post

Barnard's Trading Post

By Dayton Kelley, ed., The Handbook of Waco and McLennan County, Texas

During its decade of service, George Barnard’s branch of the Torrey Trading Posts served as one of the first commercial ventures in the Waco area. Transactions between white settlers and native Indians conducted at Torrey Trading Posts served as a…