Hi, The Caddoes were a mostly peaceful roving band who settled North and West of Erath County., Texas, where they built homes, barns, cow and hog pens before 1860 and had crops and gardens in Palo Pinto County. John R.Baylor was a part time Texas Ranger posse leader unded Col. Buck Barry of Barry and Walnut Springs, Texas. he thpought the only good Indian was a Dead one. (This was not Rev. R.E.B. Baylor who established Baylor University and Baylor Female College in Independence, Texas) Mr. Baylor led his volunteer CENTRAL tEXAS RANGERS from Waco north to Mineral Wells and to Comanche and Abilene, Texas, not hunting prisoners as posses are supposed to My Great Grandad Robert Wyly and 1 or 2 brothers rode with him on 1 or 2 hunts for escaped murderers. before 1870, when Mr. Baylor soon left and became Governor of Arizona. Maybe he ran the Caddoes out. The Central Texas Volunteers closed the Fort Graham and Fort Griffin Reservations and sent them all to the U.S. Army post at Abilene, Fort Phantom Hill. They rode int Caddo farms- of and shot livestock and a few peopke like a woman reaching for a kid and they thought it was a rifle. Then they rode into Fort Phantom Hill and told the Army Commander to have all the Indians there in Oklahoma or they would come back and kill all Indians and resisting soldiers. These folk settled in Caddo and Chickasha, Oklahoma, southwest of OKC (Oklahoma City) Huaco Indians went to the Wichita reservation- one still lives and comes to Waco a few times a year for special occasions. Remember, the Texas Caddoes were a bffer between Marauiding Nomadic Apache and Comanches and Erath County settlers. The population of Erath County during the Thurber Coal mines of 1900 was more than in 1989 as a Universithy Town, but we don't worry about being attacked by Natoivers going to Lubbock now- or do we, ? Texas Germans had no such buffer reaching into Oklahoma. Take care, Charles A, Wyly On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:27:00 -0500 skm <flintlock@kcnet.com> writes: > Could someone explain the difference in these? What areas did they > come > from? > and where did they go? The caddos disappeared from Ar. many years > ago. > Wonder where they went or what happened to them? > What is the difference in a muskogee and a cherokee? > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the > #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB >