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Robert Wallace was born 28 December 1819 in Anderson Co., Tennessee. He was a great grandson of Peter Wallace Jr. who immigrated from Ireland ca. 1724. Robert married Harriet Wood 2 September 1847 in Knoxville, Tennessee. They were the parents of ten children. Robert died 11 October 1897 in Knox Co., Tennessee. Descendants lived primarily in Tennessee and elsewhere.
The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the other direction, they were indeed the Lords of the South Plains. For more than a century and a half, since they had first moved into the Southwest from the north, the Comanches raided and pillaged and repelled all efforts to encroach on their hunting grounds. They decimated the pueblo of Pecos, within thirty miles of Santa Fé. The Spanish frontier settlements of New Mexico were happy enough to le...
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