Baylor’s vigilante army was still active after last month’s defeat, intercepting wagons of government supplies for the reservation, killing Native’s cattle and stealing their horses. On June 6, Major Robert Neighbors received word that the vigilantes [from Erath and other counties] were going to attack the reservation again, but the report was a ploy on the part of Baylor “to enable them to scatter” to their homes. “It’s a sad commentary on conditions on the frontier that troops, who were fighting the real enemy [Comanches] to the north who had devastated Texas for years, had to be recalled to protect their Indian allies from the assaults of hostile white men.” [The reservation would have to close in July and Major Neighbors would be assassinated in September.]

Kenneth Neighbours, “Chapters from the History of Texas Indian Reservations.” The West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, 33 (October, 1957), 3-16.

Kenneth Neighbours, “Indian Exodus Out of Texas in 1859.” The West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, 36 (October, 1960, 80-87.