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Mason, A. B. “The White Captive.”
Civilian and Gazette,
1860
(reprint of story in
The White Man
)
.

Mooney, James. “The Aboriginal Population of America North of Mexico.”
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
80, no. 7 (1928).

———. “Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians.”
Seventeenth Annual Report.
Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Ethnology, 1898.

Neighbors, Kenneth. “Battle of Walker’s Creek.”
West Texas Historical Association Yearbook,
1965.

Nielsen, Soren. “Ranald S. Mackenzie: The Man and His Battle.”
West Texas Historical Assn. Yearbook
64, p. 140.

Norris, David A. “Confederate Gunners Affectionately Called Their Hard Working Little Mountain Howitzers ‘Bull Pups.’”
American’s Civil War,
September 1995, pp. 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, and 90.

Oates, Stephen B. “Texas Under the Secessionists.”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
67 (October 1963): 167.

Opler, Marvin.

The Origins of Comanche and Ute.”
American Anthropologist
45 (1943).

Pate, J’Nell. “The Battles of Adobe Walls.”
Great Plains Journal
46 (Fall 1976): 3.

Pettis, Captain George. “Kit Carson’s Fight with the Comanche and Kiowa Indians.”
Historical Society of New Mexico
(1908), p. 7.

“Quanah Parker in Adobe Walls Battle.”
Borger News Herald,
date unknown, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Archives, based on interview with J. A. Dickson.

Richardson, Rupert N. “The Comanche Indians and the Fight at Adobe Walls.”
Panhandle Plains Historical Review
9 (1936).

———. “The Comanche Indians and the Fight at Adobe Walls.”
Panhandle Plains Historical Review
4 (1931).

Rister, C. C., ed. “Documents Relating to General W. T. Sherman’s Southern Plains Indian Policy 1871–75.”
Panhandle Plains Historical Review
9
(1936).

Roe, F. G. “From Dogs to Horses Among the Western Indian Tribes.”
Royal Society of Canada,
Ottawa, 1939, Third Series, Section II.

Stanley, Henry M. “A British Journalist Reports the Medicine Lodge Councils of 1867.”
Kansas Historical Quarterly
33 (1967).

Taylor, Alfred A. “Medicine Lodge Peace Council.”
Chronicles of Oklahoma
2, no. 2 (June 1924).

Thompson, W. A. “Scouting with Mackenzie.”
Journal of the United States Cavalry Association
10 (1897).

Tingley, Donald F. “The Illinois Days of Daniel Parker, Texas Colonizer.”
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society,
no. 51 (1958).

Wallace, Ernest. “David G. Burnet’s Letters Describing the Comanche Indians.”
West Texas Historical Assoc. Yearbook
30 (1954).

———. “The Comanche Eagle Dance
.

Texas Archaeological and Paleontological Society Bulletin
18 (1947).

———. “The Comanches on the White Man’s Road.”
West Texas Historical Assoc. Yearbook
29
(October 1953).

———. “The Journal of Ranald S. Mackenzie’s Messenger to the Kwahadi Comanches.”
Red River Valley Historical Review
3, no. 2 (Spring 1978): 229–46.

———. “Prompt in the Saddle, The Military Career of Ranald S. Mackenzie.”
Military History of Texas and the Southwest
9, no. 3 (1971): 161–67.

Wedel, Waldo R. “An Introduction to Pawnee Archeology.”
Bureau of American Ethnography Bulletin,
no. 112, p. 4, map 4.

Wellman, Paul. “Cynthia Ann Parker.”
Chronicles of Oklahoma
12, no. 2 (1934): 163.

West, G. Derek. “The Battle of Adobe Walls (1874).”
Battles of Adobe Walls and Lyman’s Wagon Train, 1874.
Canyon, Tex.: Panhandle Plains Historical Society, 1964.

Whisenhunt, Donald W. “Fort Richardson.”
West Texas Historical Association Yearbook
39 (1963): 23–24.

White, Lonnie. “Indian Battles in the Texas Panhandle.”
Journal of the West
6 (April 1967): 283–87.

———. “Kansas Newspaper Items Relating to the Red River War of 1874–1975.”
Battles of Adobe Walls and Lyman’s Wagon Train 1874.
Canyon, Tex.: Panhandle Plains Historical Society, 1964, pp. 77–78.

Williams, Robert H. “The Case for Peta Nocona.”
Texana
10, no. 1 (1972): 55.

Winn, Mamie Folsom. “History Centers About Cynthia Ann Parker’s Home.” In
Women Tell the Story of the Southwest
by Maddie L. Wooten. San Antonio, Tex.: The Naylor Company, 1940.

Wissler, Clark. “The Influence of the Horse in the Development of Plains Culture.”
American Anthropologist
16, no. 1 (1914): 1–25.

Worcester, D. E. “Spanish Horses Among the Plains Tribes.”
Pacific Historical Review
14 (December 1945): 409–17.

———.

The Spread of Spanish Horses in the Southwest.”
New Mexico Historical Review
19 (July 1944): 225–32.

Newspaper accounts of Pease River:

Galveston Daily Citizen,
December 13, 1860, “Indian News.”

Galveston Daily Citizen,
January 15, 1861, “Indian News.”

Materials pertaining to the Indian attacks leading up to the Pease River Fight:

The White Man,
September 13, 1860.

PAPERS, LETTERS, AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

 

Brown, Marion.
Marion T. Brown: Letters from Fort Sill, 1886–1887.
Austin: The Encino Press, 1970.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Annual Reports 1830–1875.

Council Meeting of May 23, 1884, Kiowas, 17:46, Oklahoma Historical Society.

Gulick, Charles Adams, Jr.
The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar,
vols. 2 and 4. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1924.

Hackett, Charles, ed.
Historical Documents Relating to New Mexico, Nueva Vizcaya, and approaches thereto to 1773 (from TRF).

House of Representatives Executive Documents, 30th Congress.

Jerome, David. Hearing at Fort Sill with Comanches, Kiowas, and Apaches, September 26, 1892, Panhandle Plains Museum Archives.

Kappler, Charles J., ed.
Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties,
Washington, Government Printing Office, vol. 2, 1903.

Linger, Bob, to Quanah Parker, March 9, 1909, Neeley Archive at Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas.

Mackenzie’s Official Report, Oct. 12, 1872: “1872, Sept. 29, Attack on Comanche Village,” Addressed to the Asst. Adjutant General, Department of Texas.

“Messages of the President, Submitted to Both Houses,” December 21, 1838, Lamar Papers, Doc. 948.

Morgan, Commissioner T. J., to Agent Adams, December 18, 1890, Kiowa Agency files, Oklahoma Historical Society.

Parker, Quanah, to Charles Adams, May 13, 1890, Kiowa Agency files, Oklahoma History Center.

Smither, Harriet, ed.
Journals of the Fourth Congress of the Republic of Texas,
vols. 1 and 3.

Ten Bears’ Speech at Medicine Lodge Peace Council, 1867. Record Copy of Proceedings of the Indian Peace Commission appointed Under Act of Congress Approved July 20, 1867. Records of the Secretary of the Interior, National Archives, vol. I,
pp. 104–106.

Twitchell, Ralph E.
Spanish Archives of New Mexico,
2 vols.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1914.

Wallace, Ernest, ed.
Ranald S. Mackenzie’s Official Correspondence Relating to Texas, 1871–73.
Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1967.

Winfrey, Dorman H., and James M. Day, eds.
The Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest,
5 vols. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1959–1966.

Individual Letters

 

Augur, C. C., to Mackenzie, August 28, 1874, Mackenzie’s Official Correspondence Relating to Texas,
Museum Journal,
vol. 10, 1966 (see books).

Butler, P. M., and M. G. Lewis to the Hon. W. Medill, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, August 8, 1848, House Executive Documents No. 1, 30th Congress, Second Session,
p. 578.

Davidson, Colonel J. W., to Asst. Adjutant General, October 29, 1878, House Executive Document, 45th Congress, Third Session, p. 555.

Haworth, J. M., to William Nicholson, August 26, 1877, Kiowa Agency Microform, National Archives.

Jones, H. P., to Philemon Hunt, June 21, 1883, Kiowa Agency files, Oklahoma Historical Society; George Fox to Philemon Hunt, October 13, 1884, Kiowa Agency files.

Leavenworth, J. H., to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, April 23, 1868, 40th Congress, Second Session, Senate Executive Document No. 60:2.

Linger, Bob, to Quanah Parker, letter, March 8, 1909, postmark Cantonment Oklay, regarding peyote.

Mackenzie, Ranald, to W. T. Sherman, June 15, 1871, W. T. Sherman Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Neighbours, Robert S., to the Hon. W. Medill, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, November 18, 1847, 30th Congress, First Session, Committee Report 171.

Parker, James, to Mirabeau Lamar, February 3, 1844, Papers of M. B. Lamar.

Parrilla, Don Diego Ortiz de, to the Viceroy, June 30, 1757 (
Historia,
vol. 95).

Pearson, K. J., to John D. Floyd, February 3, 1861, Fort Sill archives.

To Commanding Officer, Fort Bascom, September 27, 1864,
Official Records of the War of Rebellion,
series 1, vol. 41, part 3.

MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVAL MATERIALS

 

Anonymous.
Biography of Daniel Parker.
Handwritten manuscript, Center for American History.

Baker, Jonathan Hamilton.
Diary of Jonathan Hamilton Baker of Palo Pinto County, Texas,
Part I, 1858–60. Secured from his daughter Elizabeth Baker, Seattle, Washington, 1932, through Judge E. B. Ritchie, Mineral Wells. By J. Evetts Haley.

Beall, Knox, to R. B. Thomas, November 5, 1937, Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma.

Beall, Knox, to Bessie Thomas, April 15, 1938.

Caperton, Major John.
Sketch of Colonel John C. Hays, The Texas Rangers, Incidents in Mexico,
etc.
From materials furnished by Col. Hays and Major John Caperton, MS Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Clarke, Elizabeth Ross.
YA-A-H-HOO: Warwhoop of the Comanches.
Elizabeth Ross Clarke Collection; Narrative, Center For American History, University of Texas.

Dixon, Olive King.
Fearless and Effective Foe, He Spared Women and Children Always.
Manuscript, Olive King Dixon Papers, Research Center, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas.

Dupree, Mrs. J. L., to Jasper Mead, March 17, 1938, Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma.

Earle, J. P.
A History of Clay County and Northwest Texas.
Written by J.P . Earle, one of the first pioneers, Henrietta , Texas,
November 15, 1900 ( J. P. Earle Collection, Center for American History), manuscript.

Fleming, Evelyn. Profile of Charlie Hart. Manuscript, Quanah Parker papers, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum.

Ford, Colonel John S. (late adjutant of Col. Hays).
John C. Hays in Texas.
Manuscript, John Salmon Ford Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Gholson, B. F. Recollections of B. F. Gholson; Services of A. G. Gholson (father) 1835–1860; and B. F. Gholson, Ranger, 1858–1860, told to J. A. Rickard. Typed manuscript at Center for American History.

Gomez, Anna, to Ophelia D. Vestal, December 13, 1937, Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma.

Goodnight, Charles. “The Making of a Scout.” Manuscript, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum.

———.
My recollections and memories of the capture of Cynthia Ann Parker.
Manuscript, Charles Goodnight Papers, Research Center, Panhandle Plaines Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas.

———.
Quanah Parker Interview with Charles Goodnight,
undated. Charles Goodnight Papers, Research Center, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas.

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