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KAUFMAN RETAIL LOCATIONS
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A "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" Western store offering a whole lot more than Cowboy and Cowgirl stylist western fashions. Rosa Lee (Rosa is the famous RL in the RL Western Wear name!) has plenty of Jeans, Dresses, Hats, Belts, Cowgirl Handbags, Leather Phone Cases, Purses, Shirts, Blouses and other western fashion accessories but she offers a whole lot more from Western Jewelry, Watches, Young Cowboy Stick Horses and Picture Frames to Cowboy Gifts, Western Souvenirs and Texas Greeting Cards. Located in Kaufman, Texas, southeast of "Big D" and "Cow Town" on the edge of beautiful east Texas in a classic rustic old building that use to be a bank. The old bank vault is still in it and Rosa keeps her back-up inventory in it! Rosa's RL Western Wear (Downtown Kaufman, Texas) is an easy drive from Dallas/Fort Worth, is easy to find and well worth the effort' cause it's just across the street from the new CVS drugstore on the Downtown Square and is loaded with Texas goodies! "Come on by for a visit and y'all will see why Maxy likes it so much!" -Says, Caddylak Maxy.
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A Little About Kaufman
The City of Kaufman, county seat of Kaufman County, is the oldest community in the area of the "Three Forks" of the Trinity River that has been continuously inhabited. The "Three Forks" (West Fork, Elm Fork, and East Fork) region was known as a rich, fertile area which served as an Indian hunting ground and at the end of the l830s contained the largest Indian village east of the Brazos River.
The way for prospective settlers in this area was blocked by the "Cherokee Lands"-land assigned to the Cherokee, Kickapoo, and the Shawnee Indians by the Mexican Government. The present Kaufman County, then a part of the Nacogdoches County, lay just to the west of the northern end of the Cherokee Lands. This early agreement was honored for several years by the new Republic of Texas under its first President, Sam Houston, despite pressure from land-hungry settlers. Finally, a new President, Mirabeau Lamar, using complaints of attacks and thefts by the Cherokees, ordered them to move beyond the Red River. They refused, but lost a decisive battle in July l839 in which their leader, Chief Bowles, was killed. They were then driven out of their lands. This battle opened the way for settlement, but there were still many Indians who were able for a while to intimidate those willing to venture into this northern area.
Dr. William P. King, an entrepreneur from Mississippi, had come to Texas earlier in l839 as President of the Southern Land Company. This company had purchased Texas land script ("Toby Script") entitling the holder to locate and own land. This script had been sold by Sam Houston to raise money for the fledgling republic. Following the defeat of Chief Bowles, King signed a contract in August l839 with Warren A. Ferris to survey over 400,000 acres (90 leagues and labors) in the "Three Forks." Beginning the following month, Ferris began the first of several unsuccessful attempts to reach the region, but each time was turned back by Indian attacks or threats of attack. Finally, on June 3, l840, Ferris and King left Nacogdoches with 29 men. Despite the dryness of the season ("water was to be found only in holes"), over 500,000 acres of land was surveyed for King and others in June and July by three teams led by deputy surveyors, one of whom was the young Robert A. Terrell. Terrell was destined to play an important role in the country's history. Another surveyor who worked with Ferris in l840 was John H. Reagan, a man who was to play an even larger role in the history of the state and nation. On Ferris's return to Nacogdoches in early August, he wrote "...Thousands of occasional bear would sometimes cross our path. The prairies are boundless and present a beautiful appearance, being extremely fertile and crowned with flowers of every hue."
Following the completion of the survey, King established his headquarters on the present site of the City of Kaufman. He built a stockade called King's Fort on a bluff overlooking a creek now called King's Creek. This stockade consisted of four cabins surrounded by pickets, enclosing about three quarters of an acre. The pickets were formed of poles only a few inches in diameter and ten feet long, set about two feet in the ground. A garrison of only ten or twelve at times defied the whole Indian force of that section and sustained their position with as little difficulty as if they were protected by walls and battlements of massive stone. Robert Terrell related the story of one attack in which one day the gate of the fort had been left open and only four men were in the fort. The barking of a watchdog gave the men a warning of danger. They saw about thirty Indians riding rapidly toward the gate. The gate was shut just in time, and the Indians wheeled around, rode a short distance, and held a discussion. They then galloped back for an attack, but Terrell shot the lead horse in the forehead. As the rider fell, an Indian companion pulled him up on his horse. The Indians then gave up the attack, but stole the four horses belonging to the men in the fort. To the surprise of the men seemingly now stranded, seven horses stolen by the Indians at an earlier time in Red River County were left grazing nearby. They were quickly driven into the fort, and thus a profitable exchange was made.
On another day (July l7, l84l), a party of 25 Indians, supposedly Comanche's and Ionies, dashed by the fort in this manner. However, finding they could not frighten the brave men who defended it, they retreated, taking with them the horses belonging to the garrison. A few of them rode by the pickets. It is worthy to remark that this fort was situated within fifty miles of the largest Indian encampment east of the Brazos so that the danger was both real and continuing.
This location represents what is said to be the first permanent white settlement in the area about the Three Forks and the Upper Trinity River Basin and has never been abandoned.
Kaufman County was formed in l848 and was named after David S. Kaufman, a noted Texas patriot who in l845 was elected as one of the first members of the Texas Delegation to the United States House of Representatives.
Since l85l the town square has remained the center of activity of Kaufman, and the courthouse and RL Western Wear the focal points.
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