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NORTH TEXAS STAR STORYTELLER & RAMBLER © 13
POW WOW, from page 12
tof a line of federal posts built in Texas after the Civil
War.
THE FORT THAT WASN'T
Soldiers had returned to Jacksboro in 1866 under
orders to establish a fort at Buffalo Springs, some 30
miles north of the town up in Clay County. Two com-
panies of the 6th Calvary, probably dressed smartly
and in rows of twos, left lacksboro for Buffalo Springs
in 1867. Upon arrival they found water and timber in
short supply. Oops! Poor planning? The army aban-
doned its plans for Fort Buffalo Springs, probably
the same year. The soldiers returned to Jacksboro
and built Fort Richardson, much of which stands
today along the south bank of Lost Creek as part of
a state park. The army abandoned that post in May
1878.
MASSACRE AND TRIAL
Jacksboro took the national spotlight when in
1871, amid venomous cries for for some good old-
fashioned neck stretching, Kiowa chiefs Satanta and
Big Tree were tried for murder in district court
there. They'd led the Warren Wagon Train •
Massacre, west of Jacksboro in Young County.
CLOSE CALL FOR
BIG CHIEF SHERMAN
William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union general
who laid waste to Atlanta during the Civil War, in
1871 was sent to the Texas frontier to investigate
reports of marauding Indians leaving the reserva-
tion in Oklahoma to raid in Texas. His journey
began the last days of the Indian wars in Texas.
May 2, Sherman, now General in Chief of the
The State Historical Marker on Highway 16
between Graham and Loving.
U.S. Army, left San Antonio in a Daugherty ambi
lance with three other officers and a small compli-
ment of 17 mounted Black troopers, traveling
northward through forts Concho, Griffin, Belknai
reaching Fort Richardson near Jacksboro May 17.
During the two-week fact-finding mission he'd set n
no Indians and was of the mind the reports of
Indian depredations were greatly inflated.
What Sherman didn't know was that on May 15
some 100 hostiles had left Fort Sill and crossed, •
between present-day Vernon and Electra, into
Texas. They arrived on £alt Creek Prairie near Flint
Creek in northeastern Young County, about 20
miles west of Fort Richardson, May 16. The follow-
ing day, from atop a small hill less than a half mile
distant, the Indians watched the blue coat general
and his Buffalo Soldiers pass by along the
Butterfield Road headed for the fort at Jacksboro.
Recognizing the travelers as armed soldiers, the
war party decided to let them pass. (Another opin-
ion suggests that one of the Indians, a medicine
man, warned against seizing their first opportunity
to draw blood. He'd blown into an owl skin, the
wings had flapped, and the owl, a symbol of death
to the Kiowa, had promised success if they waited
for a second target. Another version has the medi-
cine man sitting on the hill overlooking the
Butterfield Road listening for and hearing the voice
of a dead ancestor, who basically said let the first
group pass, squash the second. According to Kiowa
accounts, it was this owl-puffing fellow, Do-ha-te
[Sky-Walker], who instigated this and nearly every
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May, David. North Texas Star Storyteller & Rambler (Mineral Wells, Tex.), April 2005, newspaper, April 1, 2005; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1099298/m1/13/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting East Parker County Genealogy and Historical Society.