Red River War

The three were among the 72 Southern Plains leaders imprisoned at Fort Marion after the late-19th-century Red River War, but two of them were first sent to Fort Sill — which, as the wall text notes, became a Japanese-American internment site nearly seven decades later.

During the 1874 Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, part of the Red River War between the U.S. army and southern Plains peoples, the United States attacked native sites in the canyon and captured 1,400 of the tribes’ horses, shooting most of them.

The incredibly thorough Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum housed Red River War artifacts, such as a Comanche war shield and steel-tipped lance, and many works by western artists, including O’Keeffe, who taught at a nearby university between 1916 and 1918.

An epilog to the Red River war occurred when the toll bridge receivers secured a belated Federal injunction against Governor Murray's military blockade of their property.