Note post, notes 182 — Chapter IX
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[182] It is practically impossible to trace the history of the squatters mentioned by Nuttall. This region was never legally open to white occupation, and the transient white settlers left few traces of their presence. At this time there were said to be twenty families at the mouth of the Kiamichi and twelve at Pecan Point, a few miles farther down Red River.—Ed.