Many of the residents and frequent visitors in the Bosque River community were larger than life frontier characters, like Scots-Cherokee Jessie Chisholm. Chisholm was born in Tennessee around 1805, then ended up in Texas. He became a successful trader and was soon enlisted in the service of the Republic of Texas around 1836. Chisholm had learned more than a dozen languages during his years as a plains trader and was a valuable interpreter at treaty councils in Texas, Indian Territory, and Kansas. He earned the respect many Comanche leaders and was sent by Houston in 1842 to persuade those headmen to come to council. The Comanches refused until some of their captives were returned. So Houston wrote to Lamar’s scourge, John H. Moore demanding that the colonel send any Comanche prisoners taken during his raids. Tragically, the young women had already been sold by the Rangers into slavery among Anglo-Texans. To Continue diplomatic efforts among the Comanche, Chisholm was invited to add his cabin to the Bosque River grant.