Arkansas Intelligencer Van Buren, Crawford County, AR August 8, 1846 Indian Depredations in our immediate Vicinity- We have been requested to notify the public and especially call Gen. Arbuckle’s attention to the depredations, ever and anon. Committed by certain Cherokees upon the stock belonging to those of our citizens, in this vicinity, who reside near Lee’s Creek. Some little while since, a Cherokee named Grubworm with others, drove Mr. Franklin Thrasher from his house and destroyed and stole what little property he had, and carried off his stock. This report, we hear, reached Gen. Arbuckle’s ears, but he was disinclined to credit it, owing to some one’s dispute of it. The report, however is strictly true. Mr Thrasher has been aquainted with the Indians for many years and he believed his life was in danger. He was a poor man, and though he lost little, ‘twas his all. Several of the citizens there have left the neighborhood to seek safer homes. Mr. Whitfield Bourne is now the most exposed, and as he has not time to spend in collecting and guarding his stock, numbers are killed and stolen. Mr. Bourne has lost every year by these marauders, but this year, the depredation has been outrageous. A small force stationed in that vicinity by Gen. Arbuckle would not only be of service, but an act of justice to the citizens injured. See the following article: August 29, 1846 We have learned nothing of the depredations of the Indians upon the stock in this neighborhood since the detachment of Gen. Arbuckle’s prompt compliance with the request of the citizens in the nieghborhood, deserves the thanks of all concerned. Fran Alverson Warren