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A gallery of all the photos
Indian and Buffalo Removal precede the coming of the JA Ranch & the Open Range
Where and how our fates are linked
The Many Endings of ‘Staked Plains’
Free Indian life ended on the Southern Plains when 1500 Commanche & Kiowa horses were destroyed in Tule Canyon in the Red River War of 1874.
Adair and Goodnight put down stakes in Palo Duro Canyon
Indian and Buffalo Removal precede the coming of the JA Ranch & the Open Range
Commanche land map The vastness that once was Commancheria.
From Catlin’s 18xx trip to Comancheria. (Smithsonian American Indian Collection)
The Second Presbyterian Church was erected close to Sheridan’s Chicago mansion in 1874. That September, the Adair’s visit Sheridan in Chicago, perhaps prey ...
Ranald “Bad Hand” Mackezie was the primary scourge and pursuer of Indians in the Red River War. He ordered his men to destroy over 1500 captured horses in T...