In 1906 writer S. C. Turnbo spoke with Sarah Matilda Cowan of her experience when "robbers and guerrillas were overrunning the country in Madison County" Arkansas.
Thieves had once stormed her family's home and grabbed anything of value:
https://thelibrary.org/lochist/turnbo/V3/ST097.html
Silas Claiborne Turnbo's many stories can be searched by keyword. If you have ancestors who once lived in Missouri, Indian Territory or northern Arkansas, put their surname in the search engine linked below. Or you might search by name of town, river, or occupation:
https://thelibrary.org/lochist/turnbo/
Yes, I looked for "blacksmith" as several in my family once shoe'd horses.
The site with nearly 800+ stories by Mr. Turnbo is sponsored by the Springfield-Greene County Library in Missouri. #LibrariansRock
Wagoner, Keystone, Coweta, Fayetteville, Prairie Grove, are other words that return with stories from 150 years ago. Or try a phrase.
He collected many stories from veterans of the Civil War. And panthers. A lot of panther stories:
Late in the night our camp was aroused by the fierce screams of a panther which had ventured up in 100 yards of camp. I was only 4 years old and I well remember that the noise of the animal made me shiver like water frogs coming out of cold water and crawling up my back.
From: https://thelibrary.org/lochist/turnbo/V25/ST719.html
His stories are copied with very little correction or editing. You will see that Mr. Turnbo had no spellcheck app.
He wrote like many of us text.