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———. “Prompt in the Saddle, The Mi
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Newspaper accounts of Pease River:
Galveston Daily Citizen, December 13, 1860, “Indian News.”
Galveston Daily Citizen, January 15, 1861, “Indian News.”
Materials pertaining to the Indian attacks leading up to the Pease River Fight:
The White Man, September 13, 1860.
PAPERS, LETTERS, AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
Brown, Marion. Marion T. Brown: Letters from Fort Sill, 1886–1887. Austin: The Encino Press, 1970.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Annual Reports 1830–1875.
Council Meeting of May 23, 1884, Kiowas, 17:46, Oklahoma Historical Society.
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