Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria In August of 1856, young Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors stopped a mail coach on the Platte Trail and demanded some tobacco. The driver was wounded as he raced to make his escape. The...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Apaches Ambush Spanish Expedition, 1743* | Baldwin Attacks Cheyennes on McClellan's Creek, 1874 | Battle of Sand Hills | Carr Battles Tall Bull's Cheyennes, 1869 | Cherokee Massacre...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Comanches and Kiowas including Lone Wolf, Satanta and Big Tree, attacked Captain Lyman's train of thirty-six wagons and sixty soldiers in Central Oklahoma on September 9, 1874. This...
Southern Plains Comancheria Adobe Walls | Anadarko | Antelope Hills | Bandera Pass | Battle of Little Wichita | Battle of the Washita | Beecher's Island | Big Sandy Creek | Bird's Creek | Bird's Fort | Bosque Redondo | Brushy Creek Battle | Devil's...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Phone: 830-563-2493 or 800-937-1590 Fort Clark, located on US Hwy 90 on the east side of Brackettville, was established June 20, 1852 at Las Moras Springs by two companies of the First...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria After the massacre at Sand Creek, the survivors fled north to the Republican River where the main body of Cheyenne were camped. The Cheyennes sent a messenger to the Sioux and Arapaho...
Part of our in-depth series exploring the forts of Comancheria Baldwin On November 6 a one-hundred-man Cheyenne party ambushed a much smaller cavalry patrol on McClellan's Creek but inflicted little damage. Two days later in the same vicinity, a...
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