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On August 3, 1859, U.S. Indian Agent Robt. S. Neighbors passed this way and camped near here with 1,051 Indians, carts, wagons, cattle, horses, and four companies of U.S. Cavalry and Infantry en route to Indian Territory, Oklahoma, to relocate tribes that had previously lived on the Brazos Reserves in Young County, Texas. Later joined by Agent Matthew Leeper and 370 Comanches of the Upper Reserve in Throckmorton County, the group journeyed north to Indian Territory, Caddo County, Oklahoma, and arrived on August 16, 1859.
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