The Red River War was a military campaign launched by the United States Army in 1874 to displace the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes from the Southern Plains, and forcibly reloc
A Kiowa ledger drawing possibly depicting the Battle of Buffalo Wallow in 1874, one of several clashes between Southern Plains Indians and the U.S. Army during the Red River War.
Native American prisoners of the Red River War, Fort Marion, Florida 1875: The inscription on the back of the original stereograph says: L to R:Lone Wolf, Double Vision, White Horse, Woman's Heart, Mamante - Kiowas. Officer left is Capt. Richard H. Pratt
Camp Supply Stockade, Harper's Weekly, February 1869.
Rugged terrain of the Palo Duro Canyon
Quanah Parker was a Native American war leader of the Kwahadi band of the Comanche Nation. He was likely born into the Nokoni band of Tabby-nocca and grew up among the Kwahadis, the son of Kwahadi Com
Red River War
…later named Lone Wolf "the Younger") into a greater position of influence than they had held previously. On 27 June 1874, Isa-tai'i and Comanche chief Quanah Parker led about 250 warriors in an attack on a small outpost of buffalo hunters in the Texas Panhandle called Adobe Walls. The encampment consisted of just…
Cynthia Ann Parker and her daughter, Topʉsana (Prairie Flower), in 1861
Quanah Parker on horseback wearing eagle feather headdress and holding a lance bottom-up. Late 1800s
Quanah Parker photograph at Pioneer West Museum in Shamrock, Texas