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or meddling humanitarians. Attitudes
had changed, and the government
intended to strike while the iron was
hot. The army fielded 46 companies
and 3,000 soldiers, the largest force
ever sent against Native Americans.
Over the course of the next several
months, the army sought out band
after band, at times playing a game
of cat and mouse, at times engaging
the Indians in bloody combat, and
sometimes slaughtering the Indians’
horses. But in the end, the Red River
War was the end for the Indians.
“[The Red River War] loomed
large in the national consciousness
not because it was a real war —
it was more of an anti-guerrilla
campaign — but because of its grand
finality,” Gywnne wrote. “Over the
years people had spoken of the last
frontier and dreamed of it, but now
that romantic idea came fully into
focus: the last frontier. You could
see it, grasp it; the end of the horse
tribes’ dominion was the end of the
very idea of limitlessness, the end of
the old America of the imagination
and the beginning of the new West
that could be measured and divided
and subdivided and tamed first by
cattlemen and then by everybody
else. Within a few years, barbed wire
would stretch the length and breadth
of the plains.”
But first the holdouts had to be
brought in to the reservations. The
ever-sly Quanah Parker and his
Quahada Comanches were off the
map, embedded in the plains and its
canyons, still an impediment, a thorn
in the army’s side.

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Sources:
• Handbook of Texas Online
• Last Days of the Comanches, S.C.
Gwynne, May 2010 Texas Monthly
• Empire of the Summer Moon:
Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall
of the Comanches, the Most Powerful
Indian Tribe in American History, S.C.
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