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marily davis
                 
       

In 1847 German immigrants in Fredericksburg negotiated a treaty with hostile Comanche, which was groundbreaking in that it treated the Indians as equals with the white population, including agreements to allow marriages between the two cultures. While the treaty was being negotiated the Indians built fires around the hills. It is believed that a pioneer woman whose children were frightened by the fires told them that the fires were created by the Easter Bunny to dye eggs for Easter. The story was commemorated locally by Easter Fires and a pageant until 2004.

  
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It is also believed that this was the only treaty with the Indians that has never been broken by either party to the treaty. The Enchanted Rock
represented in the quilt is one of the largest outcrops of pink granite in the United States and was sacred to the Indians in the area.

Historians feel that the Easter Fires/Treaty story is not plausible because the treaty was negotiated March 1st and 2nd, 1847 and Easter was much later that year. I prefer to believe that March is not too early for the Easter Bunny to prepare for the annual celebration and the fable was a wonderful way to alleviate children's anxieties about fires in the hills.

        
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