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-.11 - Forn D-(5-149") r.isd^'t) & STORY Fore; WCRJ.'S FR0CR3GS ADHEI'ISTRAI ADI IE?!ISTRATIPN Indifm-piong-rfr^ietory Project foil Oklahoaa '* 3IXTfi;IHTSHVIEW 10309 Fielg worker's, name BiMi* L, Thanai Thig report nade on (date) *T w 18 193 8 1.; TMs lpr,ond ' secured froni (nf«) ftlok Boa kg Address Htrlo*, Tiiis nerscn in (male ^r 3PHBW9B) V/ldt^, 1^0006, If InJif-n, rive tribe 2. Origin <?nd history of lecond or story Bight after iha oloclag of tht Civil War.' - 3. ','rito out the lorro'nd or story ^.s cot.plrtrly as pqspib]^.. Use"L]- n.nk sheets end attach fii:rnly xo this fovn. r.unler of shoc-t:? * ' 8 attached " '. '
.!.., -., BANKS,'DICK SIXTH.. p, 10209 /Bessie ; Thomas, Investigator, March 12, 1938, An Interview "with Mr^ Dick Banks, lferlowf-olclahoioa This Indian Trail was established right after the close of the Civil War,' by the.&o?bar-dy8, meaning Antelope chasers* These antelope ohaserb were *&anah Parker's band of approximately five hundred warriors, who, with.their families, were still on the warpath* All other Indians had been rounded up, by General MaKenzie (317) > ' In the Palo Duro Canyon, -seven miles south of Amerillo, Texas, in what is known as the Panhandle of Texas. The Ooneral gave orders to Kill all the horaes belonging to ' these Indiana, according to the a^ory told by tbe Indiana an,.4 corroborated in later yeara by the cattlemen and cowbojys who were living in that part of the country at that time* It was estimated by these "cattlemen that there *rere over i thousand head of horses and -.uiee killed* r ' This was a wise..iova by the General as he knew *-h«t a mounted bunch /of :> Indian «trriora, with their wonderful be hard to overtake and aubdu6 t /. * * i horsemanship, would V
l DICK. * SIXTH " 10S09 * & % *j1j " - 2 - Quaaah Parker also Made a wise move in. du time to the double Mountain Fork of the Brazos Rirer and thereby. avoided Capture. by General McKem^ie* '... ". IKese captive,'the womai-and children 1, wore loaded id to, Goveraaent wagonjb and the mam oa foot were horded' aad driven by the' soldiers T v. " - ; - x -, - ' to Fort Sill which was to be fixture hocre, *I!he course of march carried lofrth' aide, of Salt fork of fled ', * by the wayo>f the Haystack Mountains asd jo rneyiag»astoa «*», *pr.tm side of Sorth?ork, they crossed ^lk Creek at Littl* 3ow Motuitains, They neat 1 oa eastward. by way of Twia Moiiataa» crossing. Otter Creek, directly south of th«sorrows, at Tib.b Mountains, crossing th# UoClellan '.' >'. ".. " ; l > ' ' ' A %> "' -»'* V ' Trail roaaing from ao^thxto, south at a point near wiysre ' ". ' -,'* " -.. V A v - ; «*. ". * ' - < " '' the Quaaah Parker kom«?/ia, t^day/ ei^htoea i^iles directly v west of?ort SiH^ Arjp^ag dt the Fqrt^ these Indians war* 1 made a? codforiabla as could be uader circumstaaees. There had bc»«;a lot of auffe'riag akd* pr-iva«tiona oa this. lobg v jn^ch> o^ing to the, crowded way of ^traaaportation, alao,, to t he A'p^haX, it, was there was much eickriotfs amoag tj3«n,.aad a/number of *,! *r r ".«
BAHKS, DICK; olxth INTERVIKW 10809 Vr - 3 - deaths, before the long journey was completed, * These captives reconciled themselves to their fat», and never gav» the QovtBramant a gr#at d»al of troublt; and lodging were obstructed alorig the streams g noai* the ^ort and. the captives ware fed and cjlotbecl by the Government, ijad Boon thereafter the OoverHtaent I school was established a.fa*.miles south of Om Fort Sill * and.missionaries, i>f different denominations cane -mong the captives teaching,and preaching Christianity and they began to accept reluctantly1th* white,man 5 * religion and aost of them today are Chriatians, la 1^80, Collier. Sated opened an Indian?radi Fort Sin, offering Indian w g Post, three miles south of and merch'andi'bo for sale. Thetfe, tfelngi / Indians* re, readily traded f<»* and bought by the S -