Warren Wagon Train Marker to Lost ValleyTake 16 north to Loving, turn right and go 4.2 miles to the east. You will see a culvert that carries water from Cameron Creek under Highway 114. Just to your south, Lone Wolf scored his revenge coup on the unfortunate Trooper Bailey. The creek originally bore its Scottish spelling, Cambren, after the family that lived to the northeast and was attacked in the 1858 massacre.
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Major J. Jones,
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Lone Wolf holding the pipe hatchet he used to wreak his revenge for the loss of his son and nephew. |
Gui-tain, nephew of Lone Wolf
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Kiowa warrior Hunting Horse later gave his first-hand account of the Lost Valley Fight's climax:
...When I got to the place where they had killed the other ranger, I learned that Dohauson had thrust him off his horse with a spear, but that Mamaday-te had made first coup by touching him with his hand. Lone Wolf and Maman-ti and everybody was there. Lone Wolf got off his horse and chopped the mans head to pieces with his brass hatchet-pipe. Then he took out his butcher knife and cut open the man's bowels. Everyone who wanted to shot arrows into it or poked at it with their lances.
Presently Lone Wolf stood back to make a speech. He said, Thank you, Oh thank you, for what has been done today. My poor son has been paid back. His spirit is satisfied. Now listen! It was Mamaday-te who made the first coup. Because of this, and because he loved my son, I am going to honor him today. I am going to give him my name. Everybody listen! Let the name of Mamaday-te stay here on this battleground. Let the name of Mamaday-te be forgotten. From now on call him Lone Wolf!
"After Lone Wolf had finished his talk, we all sang a few verses of the Victory Song, then got on our horses and started home.
The above story is from the book, Carbine & Lance, The Story of Old Fort Sill, by Colonel W.S. Nye; Copyright © 1937 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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