After living from 1854 to 1858 on the reservation set aside by the State of Texas near Camp Cooper, thirty miles southwest, the Comanche Indians and their goods were removed to Oklahoma. Near this spot on a head branch of Kickapoo Creek, so named in 1830, the exodus camped on August 3, 1859, with its escort, a company of 1st United States Infantry under Capt. C. C. Gilbert, along with the Indian agent Matthew Leeper. At the same time, twenty-five miles east, Maj. George H. Thomas escorted the supervising Indian agent, Maj. R. S. Neighbors, and 1059 Lower Brazos Reserve Indians to the Oklahoma reservation. Megargel was founded here in 1910.