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Archeological evidence suggests that Indians of
the Coahuiltecan language group occupied this region for several
thousand years before the arrival of Spanish explorers in the sixteenth
century. They survived by hunting and gathering until they were taught
agriculture by the Spaniards, who also trained them in pottery,
masonry, and carpentry skills.
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the arrival of Europeans, most of these early residents succumbed to
disease, intermarried, or were annihilated by Comanche and Apache
invasions. Indians in Atascosa County after Anglo settlement began were
primarily Lipan Apaches and Comanches, although by the late nineteenth
century these, too, were virtually extinct. Families from
northern Mexico established ranches in the area by the middle of the
eighteenth century. The name Atascosa, "boggy" in Spanish, was used to
describe the area as early as 1788. |
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Cities and towns
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Charlotte
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Lytle
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Christine
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Pleasanton
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Jourdanton
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Poteet
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