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Gunter, Lillian. “Sketch of the Life of Julian Gunter.” Manuscript made for Panhandle Plains Historical Association, 1923, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum archives.

Hatfield, Charles A. P.
The Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne Campaign in Northwest Texas and Mackenzie’s Fight in the Palo Duro Canyon, Sept. 26, 1874.
Typescript, Panhandle Plains Historical Society, Canyon, Texas.

Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma. Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma (interviews from the 1930s).

Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Cora Miller. Memoirs, in Mrs. J. W. Pierce manuscript, Quanah Parker collection, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum.

Nohl, Lessing. “Bad Hand: The Military Career of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, 1871–1889.” Ph.D. diss. University of New Mexico.

Parker, Chief Baldwin.
The Life of Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief,
through J. Evetts Haley, August 29, 1930. Manuscript at Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin.

Parker, Wayne.
Quanah Parker, Last Chief of the Kwahadi Obeys the Great Spirit.
Manuscript, Quanah Parker Collection, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas.

Roberson, G. W., to J. Evetts Haley, June 30, 1926. Manuscript in Panhandle Plains Historical Museum archives.

Rogers, H. B.
The Recollections of H. B. Rogers, as told to J. A. Rickard (
appended to Gholson manuscript).

Scott, Captain Hugh. Interview with Capt. Hugh Scott, 1897. Hugh Scott Collection, Fort Sill Archives, Lawton, Oklahoma, also partly available through Neeley Archive at Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas.

Thomas, Robert B. Undated manuscript, Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma,
Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma; also Knox Beall, op. cit. November 5, 1937.

Unidentified newspaper story about the school board in Quanah Parker Collection; Panhandle Plains Historical Museum.

Wallace, Ernest, Papers. “The Habitat and Range of the Comanche, Kiowa, and Kiowa-Apache Indians.” Manuscript, Southwest Collection, Texas Tech, Lubbock.

Zimmerman, Jean Louise. “Ranald Slidell Mackenzie.” M.A. thesis. University of Oklahoma, 1965. Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma.

INDEX
 

Abilene, Tex.,
78
,
164

Abiquius,
61

Adams, Charles,
301

Adobe Walls,
2
,
253
,
260
,
263

Adobe Walls, First Battle of,
201
,
216
–19,
223
,
227
,
238

Adobe Walls, Second Battle of,
267
–72,
283
,
285
,
290
,
291

African Americans,
179
,
210
–11,
238
,
292
,
295
–96

agencies, Indian,
162
,
164
,
165
,
214
,
232
–33,
273
,
290
,
294
,
298
–99,
301
,
304
–5

agriculture,
27
–30,
31
,
47
,
55
,
57
,
77
,
164
,
210
,
228
,
229
–33,
240
–41,
286

Alabamas,
77

Alamo, Battle of the,
13
,
25
,
82

Algonquins,
27

Allen, Joseph,
127

Amarillo, Tex.,
2
,
7
,
39
,
252
,
253
,
275

ammunition,
33
,
133
,
135
,
137
–38,
147
,
150
,
168
,
204
,
208
,
216
,
233
,
244
–45,
264
,
268
,
270
–71,
276
,
296

Anadarkos,
164
–65,
167
,
209

Antelope Creek,
154

Antelope Hills, Battle of,
167
–70,
174
,
208

Anza, Don Juan Bautista de,
69
–72,
122
,
208
,
326
n

Apache Cemetery,
315

Apacheria,
55
–57,
60

Apaches,
19
,
25
,
28
,
31
,
44
,
48
,
50
,
55
–58,
62
–66,
67
,
68
,
70
,
71
,
79
,
80
,
89
,
100
,
104
,
108
,
114
,
134
,
196
–97,
209
,
214
–15,
224
,
257
,
312

Appalachian Mountains,
80
,
113
,
158

Appomattox, surrender at,
128

Arapahoes,
3
,
5
,
31
,
48
,
50
,
93
,
130
,
159
,
209
,
225
,
230
,
239
–40,
263
,
265
,
267
,
274
,
284

Arizona,
58
,
128

Army, U.S.,
1
–15,
40
,
50
,
145
,
148
,
159
–62,
169
–81,
200
–201,
207
–21,
223
,
224
,
241
–57,
258
,
275
–87,
304
–5,
324
n

see also specific units

assimilation,
54
,
55
,
62
–66,
69
,
76
–77,
89
–90,
111
,
164
,
281
,
301
–4,
311
,
313
,
318
,
319

Assiniboines,
45

Athapaskans,
29
–30,
56
–57

Athens, Tex.,
316

Augur, C. C.,
278

Austin, Stephen F.,
25

Austin, Tex.,
75
,
78
,
79
,
82
,
92
,
108
,
111
,
157
,
158
,
183
,
185
–86

Aztecs,
27
,
46
,
54

Babb, Bianca “Banc,” 104–7

Babb, Dot,
107

Baker, Jonathan Hamilton,
173
,
175
,
178

Balcones Escarpment,
75
,
78
,
93
,
139

Bank Robbery, The
,
312

Banks, Dick,
303

Baptists,
8
,
20
,
37
,
183

Barbour, James,
76

Barton Springs, Tex.,
92

Bascom, Fort,
214
,
275

Batsena,
255
,
337
n

Battey, Thomas,
264
–65

Baylor, John,
155
,
164
–65,
171
,
175

Beall, Knox,
311

Bear’s Ear, Chief,
202
–3

Beaumont, Eugene B.,
278

Bedford, Hilory,
154

Belknap, Fort,
154
,
165
,
170
,
174
,
178
,
182
,
212
,
213

Belton, Tex.,
137

Bible,
175
,
185
,
319

Big Cannibal Owl (Piamempits),
198

Big Pasture,
310
,
312

Billy the Kid,
270

Biloxis,
211

Bird, John,
137
–38

Birdville, Tex.,
182
,
184
,
186
–87,
190

Black Beard, Chief,
284
–85,
339
n

Blackfeet,
31
,
45
,
59
,
134

Black Kettle, Chief,
220
–21,
239
,
240

Blanca Cita Canyon,
280
,
282
,
283

Blanco Canyon,
7
,
9
,
10
–11,
242
,
278
,
312

Blanco Canyon, Battle of,
6
–11,
242
–49,
250
,
251
,
276
,
279
,
317

Bloomingdale Asylum,
306

“blue northers,” 39–40,
248
–49

Boerne, Tex.,
306

Bond, Brick,
260

Boone, Daniel,
95
,
99

Borger, Tex.,
216

Born, “Dutch Henry,” 270

Bourgmont, Étienne Véniard de,
25

Bowles, Chief,
76
–77

Brady’s Creek, Tex.,
58

Brazos Reservation,
164
–65

Brice, James, Lord,
303

Brown County, Tex.,
166

Brown, John,
156

Brown, John Henry,
97
,
98

Brownsville, Tex.,
165

Buchanan, James,
235

Buell, George,
263
,
275

buffalo guns,
204
,
260
–62,
270
–71

Buffalo Hump, Chief,
88
,
91
–96,
100
,
114
,
115
,
136
–37,
164
,
170
–71,
264
,
266
,
328
n

“buffalo soldiers,” 296

Bull Bear, Chief (Parra-o-coom),
243
,
256
–57,
337
n

bullets,
133
,
137
–38,
147
,
150
,
168
,
244
–45,
264
,
268
,
270
–71,
296

Burnett, Burk,
301
,
302
,
303
,
312

Butler, Pierce,
109

Cabello, Domingo,
57

Cache, Okla.,
302
,
312
,
313
,
316
–17,
318
,
341
n

Cache Creek,
111

Cachupin, Vélez,
61

Caddoes,
16
,
68
,
77
,
92
,
164
–65,
167
,
209
,
211

Caldwell, Matthew “Old Paint,” 86,
98
–99,
138

Camp Robinson,
304
–5

cannibalism,
7
,
198
,
211

cannon,
69
,
216
,
219

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