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	Handbook of Texas Online: RUNAWAY SCRAPE
		The term Runaway Scrape was the name Texans applied to the flight from their homes when Antonio López de Santa Anna
		Couriers were dispatched from Gonzales to carry the news of the fall of the Alamo, and when they received that news, people all over Texas began to leave everything and make their way to safety.
		Carolyn Callaway, The Runaway Scrape: An Episode of the Texas Revolution (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1942).
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/pfr1.html (472 words)

	The Runaway Scrape.
		Less well recalled is the Runaway Scrape produced by the fall of the Alamo and the massacre at Goliad a couple of weeks later.
		The Runaway Scrape was a mad dash to safety by civilians, even government officials, to escape the Mexican army in the aftermath of these two bloody losses.
		The Runaway Scrape, then, resulted from three items of bad news in close proximity: losses at the Alamo and Goliad and the only remaining Texan military force in retreat.
	www.texasescapes.com /DEPARTMENTS/Guest_Columnists/East_Texas_all_things_historical/RunawayScrapeAMD302.htm (437 words)

	Runaway Scrape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The Runaway Scrape is the period in early 1836 generally beginning with the Siege and Fall of the Alamo and ending with the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21.
		It was a period of terror and panic among the settlements of Texas, as Santa Anna and the Mexican armies swept eastward from San Antonio, virtually unopposed.
		During the runaway, the colonists gathered a few personal possessions, abandoned their homes, and headed eastward under most difficult conditions.
	www.lsjunction.com /events/runaway.htm (209 words)

	RvTx6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		In what has become known as the "Runaway Scrape", families literally picked up and left the dinner on the table in their haste to escape the invading Mexican Army with its policy of no quarter, no mercy, and no prisoners.
		The news of the fall of the Alamo and the subsequent Runaway Scrape reached the delegates at Washington-on-the Brazos.
		Shortly after Burnet was elected President, when the Runaway Scrape was panicking many of the settlers, Burnet went to the Lynchburg Ferry and left soldiers to aid the settlers and speed up the operation of the ferry.
	users.ev1.net /~gpmoran/RvTx6.htm (1455 words)

	We magazine - Short Takes: The Runaway Scrape
		The mad dash for the border to escape the Mexican army came to be known as the Runaway Scrape.
		The note said Texas has no monument to the thousands of women and children who were involved in the Runaway Scrape.
		Runte explained that the Runaway Scrape began in the western parts of the state — San Antonio, San Patricio, and Refugio — and moved east.
	www.dhs.state.tx.us /we/archive/2001/summer/runaway.html (753 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle > Entertainment > Music
		That opinion inspired the title of the group’s debut album, Runaway Scrape, which will be released Friday at their CD release party at Fitzwilly’s.
		On Runaway Scrape, the Gougers mix both old and new by including some thoughtfully chosen covers that have become staples at their live shows — Boulder to Birmingham by Emmylou Harris, Don’t You Take it Too Bad by Townes Van Zandt and Return of the Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons.
		The group’s CD release party for Runaway Scrape, with special guest Vienna Teng, is Friday at Fitzwilly’s.
	www.theeagle.com /spotlight/music/2003articles/092503backtobasics.htm (1016 words)

	Gonzales County
		Gonzales County, named for the capital of Green DeWitt's colony, was established in 1836 and organized in 1837 as one of the original counties in the Republic of Texas.
		In 1837 an election was held for the "depopulated counties"; those settlers who had participated in the Runaway Scrape or were temporarily living in other locations voted in this election.
		During the Mexican invasions of 1842, volunteers from the county joined the Texas forces and families living along the rivers, and many from the town joined in what is sometimes called the Second Runaway Scrape.
	www.gwrra-txw.org /triplog/texascourthouses/gonzales.html (3583 words)

	Off the Kuff: Redistricting upheld
		it is so typical of the crybaby runaway democrat scumbags to whine and complain about being on the receiving end of the very same treatment they dispensed when they were in the majority.
		I'm a pretty dedicated republican, but in the latter stages of the runaway scrape, i was pretty worried that Dewhurst and Perry would find themselves outmanuevered, and would prove unwilling or unable to wield their power as ruthlessly as necessary to crush the extralegal acts of the runaway legislators.
		Republicans are not good in general at using power subtly, and this disability makes their use of power more offensive to behold, and causes many republican leaders to unnecessarily shrink away from the brink of decisive action, either out of their own personal revulsion, or fear of the revulsion of the public.
	www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/002831.html (1898 words)

	Muster at Gonzales, The Runaway Scrape & Retreat to San Jacinto
		When the great runaway set in, the captain conducted quite a party of settlers from that vicinity towards the Sabine.
		In after years it was my good fortune to know and to neighbor with some of the refugees in the Runaway Scrape and I can testify that better and nobler men and women never lived.
		Mother was as jovial as a girl at a ball and the children were enlivened by a spirit of gaiety.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/mustergon.htm (6197 words)

	Printable Version
		The George Ranch Historical Park, in association with the Fort Bend Museum Association, will reenact the Runaway Scrape and Engagement at Thompson's Ferry from 9 a.m.
		Reenactors will bring life to the dire events of the Spring of 1836, when Santa Anna's troops advanced on the rebellious Texians, the settlers' fled from the advancing Mexican soldados (soldiers), and Mexican troops and Texian volunteers fought to the death for Texas' independence.
		Henry Jones, the ranch's founder, and his family fled as part of what has come to be called the Runaway Scrape.
	www.herald-coaster.com /articles/2004/03/31/news/news03.prt (337 words)

	The Sidewheeler That Saved Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		But 1836 was not a usual year, and though it was still winter, many families from the tidewater region flocked to the ports to catch a schooner for the United States.
		The horror of the massacre at the Alamo was told and retold in frightened huddles as the Runaway Scrape began.
		He urged the Runaway Scrape families to stay, to have confidence in a Texas victory over Santa Anna.
	www.thehistorynet.com /we/blsidewheeler/index1.html (1379 words)

	Dancing with Myself
		While surfing the internet looking for stories about either the "runaway scrape" or "Rita forces Texas massive evacuation," I came across this little gem connecting my mother's people to the story at hand.
		From the Diary of William Fairfax Gray, participating in the Runaway Scrape.
		One scholar concluded that the "runaway" fls seen by Gray were actually part of the Ashworth family.
	rlbtzero.typepad.com (4087 words)

	Texas Tech University Press - Books - Excerpts from A Texas Sampler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		This mass exodus is known as the 'Runaway Scrape.' Noah Smithwick was one of the last people to leave Bastrop.
		Dilue Rose Harris was ten years old that spring of 1836 when her family fled its Houston-area farm and Joined theffight of the Texas refugees to the U.S. border.
		Dilue describes the Runaway Scrape and her visit to the Son Jacinto battlefield.
	www.ttup.ttu.edu /books/TXSMSM.html (1878 words)

	The Runaway Scrape
		Many of the army recruits were equally fearful for the safety of their own families and deserted in sizeable numbers to help them head east to the Sabine River.
		The mass evacuation of settlers has become known in Texas history as the "Runaway Scrape".
		Houston gathered all the men he and supplies he could and left Gonzales just before midnight on the 13th of March, burning the town behind him.
	www.bjgeiger.com /texas/history/revolution/retreat.html (953 words)

	The "Runaway Scrape" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The Runaway Scrape was what the Texans called the rush towards the Sabine River in March and April, 1836.
		Left: "St. Louis From the River Below," by George Catlin, 1832-1836, showing the Yellow Stone before she went to Texas in 1835 and ferried the Texas Army across the Brazos during the Runaway Scrape.
		Upon learning that Santa Anna was marching towards the Brazos, families hid their valuables and took only what was necessary on what they called "The Runaway Scrape." Heading for Louisiana in wagons or on foot, most crossed Lynch's ferry on the San Jacinto River on their way east.
	www.bchm.org /Austin/panel51.html (530 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: RUNAWAY SCRAPE OAK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The Runaway Scrape Oak is a half mile north of Alternate U.S. Highway 90, ten miles east of Gonzales.
		On the night of March 13, 1836, the first night of the retreat known as the Runaway Scrape,
		"RUNAWAY SCRAPE OAK," http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/RR/tpr1.html (accessed October 9, 2005).
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/print/RR/tpr1.html (145 words)

	Come and Take it - Gonzales: The Beginning
		Performed in the 100+ year old Gonzales County courthouse in the beautifully resorted district court room, narrator Bob Burchard walks the audience through the formative years of Gonzales by having a dialog with early Gonzales settlers.
		Starting with Empresario Green DeWitt to discuss the founding of Gonzales as the capital of the DeWitt colony, then with the widow Martha McCoy about life in the colony and ending with the emotional portrayal of the Runaway Scrape through the eyes of Margaret Darst.
		Through all of this there were three facts that all who attended knew at the end of this fine performance.
	www.texasbob.com /travel/tbt_gonzales.html (799 words)

	Dear America: A Line in the Sand
		Lucinda Lawrence's diary offers a first-hand look at the early attempts of Mexican soldiers to take a cannon from the Texans in her home town of Gonzales; the growing tensions between the two sides; and the tragedies of Goliad, the Runaway Scrape, and the Battle of the Alamo.
		I especially admire those women in Gonzales who lost their husbands at the Alamo; who carried the added burden of being widows with no means of support.
		But like the young widow, Sydnie Kellogg, who gave birth in the back of a cart in the pouring rain during the Runaway Scrape, they survived by strength and willpower.
	www.scholastic.com /dearamerica/parentteacher/guides/dearamerica/linesandfs.htm (1813 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Smithwick, The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days
		His description of the citizens' army that comprised the revolutionary forces during those critical days reveals initially a rowdy band of patriots—men undisciplined, ill-prepared for war, and overconfident, yet unawed by Mexican military strength.
		But it is his commentary on the Runaway Scrape that is most gripping: "The desolation of the country through which we passed beggars description.
		Houses were standing open, the beds unmade, the breakfast things still on the tables, pans of milk moulding in the dairies.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exsmievo.html (4312 words)

	Austin Bay Blog » 2005 » September
		This great bug-out became known as “The Runaway Scrape.” I’ve always thought that would be a great name for a jazz band– perhaps some day I’ll use it.
		The Galveston-Houston evacuation is far less chaotic than the Runaway Scrape, though listening to Houston talk radio shows (such as KTRH, 740 AM) demonstrates that nerves are fried.
		Here’s a link to a short essay on The Runaway Scrape.
	austinbay.net /blog?m=20050922 (1809 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle > Entertainment > Books
		The Runaway Scrape Diary of Belle Wood” by Lisa Waller Rogers (Texas Tech University Press, $15.95) is a fictional account of a young girl’s retreat, with her family, to flee the march of Mexican Gen. Santa Anna in spring 1836.
		Her brother, Mac, is presumed dead at the Alamo.
		After the Alamo fell, many Texans began leaving the state in a mass exodus known as the “Runaway Scrape.” Rogers relates the story from the point of view of a 14-year-old girl writing in her diary.
	www.theeagle.com /spotlight/books/texasreads/122803texasreads.htm (456 words)

	<a>History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		March 31 -April 1, 1836- The Runaway Scrape: Loading the Yellow Stone at Groce's Plantation.
		In the distance one can see the smoke rising from the burning of the town of Gonzales, from which Houston, the army of the fledgeling republic and the town's population had fled the evening before.
		The mad flight which would later be named "The Runaway Scrape" had begun on hearing from Suzanna Dickinson of the fall of the Alamo- and with it the deaths of some forty citizens of Gonzales.
	people.txucom.net /ljamison/history.html (1126 words)

	Texas Treasures - The Battle of San Jacinto - Texas State Library
		On March 25, news of the massacre at Goliad led several men to leave the army to assist their families to flee before the advancing Mexican army.
		The resulting "Runaway Scrape" involved most of Eastern Texas, and panicked the government.
		Sam Houston spent the next few weeks attempting to train the recruits into something resembling a disciplined army, then continued his march toward the Sabine.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /treasures/republic/san-jacinto.html (567 words)

	Narrative of Robert Hancock Hunter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		In the Runaway Scrape, Father drove 5 or 6 hundred head of cattle down to San Jacinto ferry to cross, but thare was so many people thare that he could not cross, and had to leave them to the mercy of both Armies, and the most of them were killed.
		When father left in what is cald the runaway scrape, he took all of his kitchen and tabble ware over in the bottom in a cane brak and hid it.
		We went over next morning, and got all the pots and dishes, and some tools and one thing and a nother that he had hid in the cane brake.
	dl.tamu.edu /Projects/sodct/hunternarrative.htm (9455 words)

	San Jacinto Museum of History—April 21st, 1836
		Since January 1836, Texas settlers had been abandoning their homes and the lives they’d created on the Texas frontier.
		Known as the Runaway Scrape, this retreat began as the Mexican government initiated military reoccupation of the newly settled land.
		The event was marked by sickness, freezing weather, hunger and panic among the citizenry.
	www.sanjacinto-museum.org /The_Battle/April_21st_1836 (636 words)

	Diary of William Fairfax Gray, Virginia to Texas, 1835-1837 (wg_261.htm)
		The panic was fueled by rumors of anticipated cruelty, which the events of Goliad seemed to confirm.
		Initially, the people of Texas fled only a few days ahead of the retreating army, but panic set in as far east as Nacogdoches as Texans ran the "Sabine Shute" to find safety on U. S. soil.
		The Runaway Scrape left much of Texas depopulated through the summer of 1836.
	www.smu.edu /swcenter/FairfaxGray/wg_261.htm (456 words)

	family of thomas williams and mary priscilla brooks
		On April 7, 1836, Brooks Williams, who was then living a short distance from Fort Lacy, and a few miles from Chief Bowles' Village, was killed by the Cherokee and scalped in his cornfield, leaving his wife, Mary Williams, and their 7 children, the endest of which was Robert Williams, then 18 years of age.
		They were left helpless and neighborless among the the savage Cherokee, at the time of the Runaway Scrape, when panic seized the inhabitants of Texas, between the time of the fall of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, while Sam Houston and his army was retreating before the advance of Santa Anna.
		Among the privates of that company was the 18 year old son of Brooks and Mary Williams, Robert Williams, who enlisted in the service to avenge the death of his father at the hands of the savages.
	members.aol.com /lisacsa/OTHERTHOMAS.htm (2153 words)

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