Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978 Page: 5
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LAS SABINAS - THE CYPRESSES
The swamp cypress of this area, one of the timber ever-
green conifers (Taxodium distichum), is that strange looking,
but beautiful, buttressed tree with those upward growths from
its roots called knees. These trees sometimes reach a height
of eighty feet or more.1
For countless years the beauty of these cypresses was
known only to the Indian tribes - the Attacpa, the Anadarko,
the Caddo and others - who, in their fleet priogues, used
present-day Texas' easternmost river and its tributaries as
their highways.2
Then came the Spanish who, in their musical language,
called this stream, which divided their new world territories
from those of the French, Rio de Sabinas, from las sabinas,
the cypresses, growing along its banks. This designation was
corrupted by the later arriving French and English speaking
peoples into "Sabine" by which name we know this waterway today.3
Thus, las sabinas, the cypresses, have given their name to
a mighty river, an important area and this publication.
Loren LeBlanc
1. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica; Macropaedia, Vol. 5,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Chicago, 1973. p. 1.
2. White, Edna McDaniel, East Texas Riverboat Era and Its
Decline, LaBelle Printing & Engraving Co., Beaumont, 1967,
p. 2.
3. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. XXXIV (July
1935 to April 1936). The Texas State Historical Associa-
tion, Austin, 1936.
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978, periodical, January 1978; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255383/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Orange County Historical Society.