#GRAHAM AMBUSHED AT AIRPORT PLUS#
Baylor, former upper reservation Indian agent, and a group of Indians let by Chief Hatterbox resulted in the Chief's death plus the deaths of two of Baylor's men. In May 1859, a confrontation between a group of whites led by John R.
All, but one, were killed as they slept in their blankets. Eight Indians were massacred without provocation by a group of whites from nearby Erath County. In 1858, a party of Indians, led by Choctaw Tom, was allowed off the reservation to hunt in Palo Pinto County near Ioni Creek. For more information on the Brazos Indian Reservation from the Texas State Library & Archives Commission, click here.Īlthough the lower reservation held the friendly agrarian Indian tribes, a trust was never established between the locals and the Indians. Some 2000 Indians occupied this lower reservation, mainly members of the following : Anadarko, Caddo, Teaucana, Waco, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware Nation, Shawnees, and Tonkawa tribes. The lower reservation, called the Brazos River Indian Reservation, began adjacent to the western edge of Wildcatter Ranch and Resort and extended into present day Graham covering some 68,120 acres (about nine miles square). The upper Indian reservation was established at Camp Cooper now in Throckmorton County, The hostile plains Indians, the Penateka Comanches were located at this reservation. In 1854, two Indian reservations were established. Belknap was a weekly stop on the famous Butterfield Overland Stage Route that lasted only four years from 1857 to 1861. Fort Belknap was a frontier fort built to protect the early settlers from the Indians, mainly the Comanches and Kiowas. The pioneer era began in this county with the establishment of Fort History comes alive Belknap in 1851.
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