Settling the
Western Frontier

The Native Lands
Indian Troubles
The Great Wagon Road
Migration Paths into Old Tryon
Nixon's History of Lincoln County
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The Native Lands
"The pioneers found a wild, luxuriant with native flora, the habitat of the red man and wild animals. There were herds of fleet-footed deer; there were clumsy brown bears and fierce wild cats and panthers; there were droves of buffalo, and countless beavers building their dams on the creeks.
"The early settlers waged a relentless war on these animals and set a bounty on many of their scalps. The scalps on which a price was set were the wolf,  panther, wild cat, and such other as preyed on domestic animals. The claims filed in court were for 'scalp tickets'.   As late as October Sessions, 1774, there were audited in favor of individuals forty-nine 'wolf scalp tickets'.   
"We still retain Indian, Beaver Dam, and Buffalo Creeks, Bear Ford, Wolf Gulch, and Buffalo Mountain, Buffalo Shoals, and the Indian names Catawba and Tuckaseegee, memorials of these primeval days."

Alfred Nixon
History of Lincoln County, 1910