| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| QUOTATION: | During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943). Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State (The WPA Guide to Texas), p. 410, Hastings House (1940).
Describing East Texas’s Big Thicket. |
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