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1. Painting - CHIEF BOWLES ON HORSEBACK In the colonial South, Highland Scots were those most active in trade with the Native American tribes. Many of them, like Chief Bowles's father, married native women like Bowles's mother, who was half British herself. Chief Bowles was described as being very Gaelic in appearance with red hair, light eyes, and freckles.

   McCrocklin, Claude

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2. Painting - LOG HOUSE AND MAN WITH DEER ON DONKEY The Cherokee, like several other Southeast Woodland groups, were very open to new ideas. They quickly adopted the British settlers' equipment, clothing, houses, and farming techniques. By 1819 when they came to Texas, they had so adapted that modern archeologists can seldom distinguish between their farms and those of settlers.

   McCrocklin, Claude

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3. Painting - LOG HOUSE A typical Cherokee homestead when they were in East Texas from 1819 to 1839 would have looked like this. They had adopted log cabins, rail fences, European clothes, horses, and chickens before fleeing their homeland in the Southeast.

   McCrocklin, Claude

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