Plácido, Head Chief of the Tonkawas, woulda been close to fifty when him and his bunch ran 25 miles overnight to make it to the Plum Creek fight.
The son of a Comanche woman captured and enslaved by the Tonkawas, both of Placido’s wives were likewise Comanche women captured on raids. In common with the Pawnee and prob’ly other tribes, the Tonkawas would customarily raid the Comanches on foot, intending to ride captured horses home,
Wiki has a decent account of his life.....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placido_(Tonkawa_leader)
His name in his own language translates to “Can’t Kill Him”, whereas “Plácido” is Spanish for “calm”, from which we might infer he was cool under
Birdy, I didn’t read the wiki page on Placido. But he was supposed to have lived for a time on the Colorado below Bastrop on Edward Burleson’s grant. Like in a dugout or cave in the river bluff. Often wondered where that was. I suspet is was just South of town as the bluff runs out not too far out of town.
