Jumat, 03 Maret 2017

The Trusted Lipan Apache Scout Johnson Helped Colonel Mackenzie Find the Enemy

He and other Lipans and Tonkawas worked against the Comanches. Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie drove his 4th U.S. Cavalry from Fort Concho north into the Texas Caprock in August 1874, commanding three of five columns the Army fielded to corner renegade Kiowas and Comanches. With Mackenzie were some of the best scouts on the southern …

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