Moo.vET] A SERIES OF SKIRMISHES 211 



Major Price had a severe encounter with a large force of Indians 

 between Sweetwater creek and the Washita, on the eastern boundary 

 of the Panhandle, but finally repulsed them, pursuing them several 

 miles. The assailants were supposed to have been the Kiowa who 

 had recently stampeded from the Wichita agency (see the calendar 

 1874^15; also Eecord, 4; War, 3). 



Ou September 26 and 27, 1874, Colonel (afterward General) Eanald 

 S. Mackenzie, Fourth cavalry {Muiuioniherite, "No index-flnger," on 

 account of the loss of that finger), whom the Comanche already knew 

 to their sorrow, with a detachment of his regiment, after repelling two 

 attacks, surprised a large body of Cheyenne and their allies in a canyon 

 near Red river, Texas, destroying over a hundred tipis aud capturing 

 their entire camp outfit, with over fourteen hundred horses and mules. 

 This was the severest blow the Indians had yet received. Ou October 

 9, Colonel George P. Buell, Eleventh infantry, struck and destroyed a 

 large Kiowa camp on the Salt fork of Red river, and eight days later 

 Captain Adua R. Chaffee, Sixth cavalry, surprised and destroyed 

 another camp north of the Washita, the Indians fleeing without attempt- 

 ing a defense (Record, 5). 



As a result of these successive^ losses the Indians became discouraged, 

 and early in October the Comanche sent messengers asking permission 

 to come into the agency. Permission being given, Tiibinii'naka, White- 

 wolf, and Red-food, with their people, started in and were met on Elk 

 creek by a detachment ft-om Fort Sill, under Major G. W. Schofield, 

 who received their surrender and brought them in to the fort. Others 

 came in a few days later and surrendered, making in all about four 

 hundred Indians with about two thousand horses. Other Comanche 

 and Kiowa in small parties continued to come in, the men being impris- 

 oned under guard as fast as they arrived. Big-bow was allowed to go 

 back to induce the Kiowa to come in, and was successful, returning in 

 February, 1875, with Lone- wolf, Red-otter [Apeii-guadal), Swan ( Tsa'dalr 

 fain), Dohusan, and Poor bufl'alo, aud their people, who were met on 

 their way in by the interpreter, Philip McCusker, and some friendly 

 Comanche, to whom they surrendered their arms and horses. Poor- 

 buffalo and his band had been enrolled among the frieudlies, but had 

 fled at the time of the agency fight. This left only a few of the Kiowa 

 out, and these also came in soon after. In the meantime small bodies 

 of Cheyenne were coming in and surrendering at their agency, but the 

 main body still remained out [Report, 47; Record, 6). 



Ou November 6 a small detachment of the Eighth cavalry under 

 Lieutenant H. J. Farnsworth had a fight with about a hundred of the 

 Cheyenne on McClellan creek, Texas, in which several were killed and 

 wounded on both sides. Two days later Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin, 

 with some of the Fifth infantry and Sixth cavalry, attacked a camp of 

 Cheyenne near the same place and rescued two little white girls named 

 Germaine, who had been captured more than a year before. The pur- 

 suit was continued by another detachment under Captain Charles D. 



