for you Comanchists, this timeline is kind of cool.

http://www.comanchelanguage.org/Comanche%20Timeline.htm

my family settled in Wise County in 1861, got chased out back to Missouri during the Unpleasantness when the Comanche pushed the frontier back, then returned in 1866 and ranched there again.

Wise County was a battleground, before and after the WBTS, as the attached map shows:

http://www.forttours.com/pages/hmwise.asp

next time I'm up there I'm going to spend a day with that map and visit some of the sites.

my great-grandfather Jeremiah was born in Texas in '61, lived to be 104 so I got to spend a lot of time with him. he had ridden in a punitive raid as a young teenager after their cattle were rustled by Comanche bravos raiding off their reservation in Oklahoma, and had bloodcurdling Indian raid stories he used to love to tell his great-grandkids.

The last Indian raid in Wise county was in 1875. Jeremiah had 17 children by three wives, many of whom moved farther west to Haskell and Stonewall counties in the late 1800s after it began to develop....although the counties were set up in the 50s, whites couldn't live there until the Comanche wars were over.



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