J. Frank Dobie stated that Lehmann’s story was the definitive white captives story.
I think Quanah pretty much talked him into going back to his family in Gillespie Co.
Wasn’t the medicine man an Apache and his murder the reason he escaped to the Comanches???
I also believe Quanah was instrumental in seeing that Lehmann received a Comanche allotment (land) at Ft. Sill as he stated he was an official member of the tribe. Lehmann went back and lived there for a while.
Quanah indeed took Herman under his wing so to speak and the quarter section he received is only a few miles west of our place here. This area was and still is known as "The Big Pasture" from the days the Comanche and Kiowas rented out this area to Burk Burnett and other cattlemen basically overseen by Quanah.
I first read Lehman's book out of the library in Grandfield OK but do have it on Kindle too.
