Indian Emily

Ten years later, a slightly different version was published in the Dallas Semi-Weekly News, and then again, for a larger audience in April 1930 in the Frontier Times.

[3][1] In 1936, Scobee and other residents successfully advocated that the Texas Centennial Commission erect a historical marker on the fort's grounds, at the purported site of her grave.

In 1955, Scobee admitted in a letter that he knew the U.S. army had no record of Lieutenant Tom Easton, but "for the most part kept mum about it, so as not to wreck a good story".

[5] A 1968 article in Big West Magazine claimed that Indian Emily persisted as a ghost, screaming for Tom to return to her.

When Fort Davis became a part of the National Park Service, researchers unsuccessfully searched for historical evidence of Indian Emily.

On January 9, 1882, post-surgeon Paul R. Brown recorded the "cowardly and brutal murder" of the woman, whose head had been split with an axe, with "rape seem[ing] to have been the object".