Robert Simpson Neighbors dedicated his life to the fair treatment of the native tribes in an age when most of his fellow Texans felt the “only good Indian is a dead Indian.”

The story of this courageous Indian agent is the subject of my “This Week in Texas History” column for Wednesday, September 11 through Tuesday, September 17.  If your local newspaper does not carry the oldest and most widely read feature of its kind, you can obtain a one-year email subscription for only $20 on this web site.