In 1843, the Torrey brothers of Connecticut and their childhood friend George Barnard, with President Sam Houston as a partner, contracted to build a series of trading posts along the Brazos River. Barnard's friendly manner made the Indians his friends and helped open the way for more peaceful frontier settlement. In 1846, at the post on Tehuacana Creek near Waco, George ransomed a young girl, Juana Cavasos, from a group of Comanches for $300, and by 1847 she had married his brother Charles. In 1849, Charles and George established a second post within this valley, four miles north of this site and near a Shawnee-Delaware village, where Charles and Juana would live in view of Comanche Peak in modern-day Hood County. From a bulletproof "Dog-Run" log house they traded goods and did an excellent business, while Juana's influence on the region equaled theirs. Two Anglo communities, George's Creek and Fort Spunky, sprang up in the area. After the government relocated the area's Indian population to Oklahoma in 1859, the need for a trading post dwindled. In 1860, Charles and Juana began a community on the Paluxy River, where he built a large stone gristmill, and the town that grew around it was called Barnard's Mill, later renamed Glen Rose.