Quahadis

Of those, the most remote, primitive, and irredeemably hostile were a band of Comanches known as the Quahadis.

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A fierce and independent group numbering in the thousands with a remuda of fifteen thousand horses and camping in Palo Duro Canyon—the Quahadis—was beyond anything they knew or could guess at.

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By 1880 he had become the acknowledged leader of the Quahadis and the Indian leader most often consulted by the agent.13

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Mackenzie had a certain advantage in that no white man had ever dared try such a thing before; not in the panhandle plains, not against the Quahadis.

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At noon on June 2, nearly a month after they left their camp, four hundred seven Quahadis arrived at Signal Station, a few miles west of Fort Sill, and surrendered themselves, their fifteen hundred horses, and their arms to the military authorities of the United States.

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The Quahadis, magnificently aloof as always, refused to sign anything.

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Among the unreconstructed elements of the Quahadis who were present at Medicine Lodge was eighteen-year-old Quanah.

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The only exception was when members of the Penateka band joined U.S. Army forces as scouts during the final campaign against the Quahadis in the Texas Panhandle.

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The Quahadis dealt extensively with the merchants of Santa Fe, but only through the Comanchero intermediaries.

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Soon large numbers of Comanches, including Bull Bear and his Quahadis, were back in their old camps, doing what they had always done.

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