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was born in "muddy traveling winter" (1864-65), and his younger son 

 Mc'isep was born in "bugle scare winter" (1809-70). Paul Setk'opte 

 first saw light among the Cheyenne the winter after the "showery 

 medicine dance" (1853), and joined the Kiowa iu the autumn after the 

 "smallpox medicine dance" (1802). 



SCOPE OF THE MEMOIR 



As the Kiowa and associated Apache are two typical and extremely 

 interesting plains tribes, about which little is known and almost nothing 

 has been printed, the introductory tribal sketch has been made more 

 extended than would otherwise have been the case. As they ranged 

 within the historic, i)eriod from Canada to central Mexico and from 

 Arkansas to the borders of California, they came in contact with nearly 

 all the tribes on this side of the Columbia river region and were visitors 

 in peace or war at most of the military and trading posts within the 

 same limits. For this reason whatever seemed to have important bear- 

 ing on the Indian subject has been incorporated in the maps with the 

 purpose that the work might serve as a substantial basis for any future 

 historical study of the plains tribes. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Acknowledgments are due to Captain H. L. Scott, Seventh cavalry, 

 U. S. A., Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for much valuable material and friendly 

 assistance; to ex-agent Lawrie Tatum, Springdale, Iowa, for photo- 

 graphs and manuscript information ; to Thomas C. Battey, Mosk, Ohio, 

 former Kiowa teacher, and to Mrs P^lizabeth Hawortb, Olathe, Kansas, 

 widow of former agent J. M. Haworth, for photographs; to Caroline M. 

 Brooke, Washington Grove, Maryland, for assistance in correspondence; 

 to Philip Walker, esquire, Washington, D. C, for translations; to De 

 Lancey W, Gill and assistants of the division of illustrations in the 

 United States Geological Survey; to Andres Martinez and Father 

 Isidore Eicklin, of Anadarko, Oklahoma, for efiicient aid in many 

 directions; to Timothy Peet, Anadarko, •Oklahoma, to L. A. Whatley, 

 Iluutsville, Texas, and to my Kiowa assistants, Setk'opte, Setimkia, 

 A'dalpepte, Tebodal, Gaapiatan, Sett'au, Anko, and others. 



