Lone Wolf Community

Two Kiowa leaders bore the name Lone Wolf, and the Handbook of Texas tells of both. Guipago led the militant minority of his people in the 1870s. In 1868 he and Satanta were held hostage at Fort Cobb until the Kiowas returned to their reservation. He surrendered at Fort Sill about February 1875, was among the leaders imprisoned in Florida, and died in 1879. Mamadayte, whom he adopted as Lone Wolf the Younger, was recognized as head chief of the Kiowas until 1896, led a delegation to Washington in 1902, and died in 1923.

What the plaque says

Lone Wolf Community (5 mi. N of Lone Wolf Mountain) Named for Kiowa chief whose tribe roamed area until 1870s. Community development when John Mahoney donated cemetery and school sites. A schoolhouse, erected 1901, was used also for church services. First teacher, W. F. Knowlton, had 35 pupils. Local post office was Winston (June 26, 1901-April 30, 1909). Mail later came by rural route. In 1906, D. C. Hazelwood built local store. Lone Wolf School, operated at different locations, served the community until consolidated. Cemetery (with oldest grave date 1892) continues in use as burial place for area families. (1970)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Heart of West Texas Museum — 12 mi
  Colorado City's museum in a restored downtown house, from a mammoth dug up at Lake Champion in 2001 to an Ice Age bison and the wartime telegrams sent to a local family.
• Scurry County Museum — 15 mi
  Snyder's county museum on the Western Texas College campus, with the rifle used to shoot the white buffalo, an 1878 chuckwagon and the millionth barrel of the Canyon Reef oil boom.
• National WASP WWII Museum — 17 mi
  Hangar 1 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, where the women of the WASP trained to fly every aircraft in the Army's arsenal in World War II, then waited thirty-three years to be called veterans.
• Lake Colorado City State Park — 18 mi
  A mesquite-plains park on a lake built in 1949 to cool a power plant, southwest of Colorado City, where controlled burns are bringing back the grassland and 300 bird species pass through.

More markers nearby

• Site of Valley View School — 3.6 mi
• Pyron, Texas — 5.7 mi
• St. John's Catholic Church — 6.8 mi
• Hermleigh — 7.4 mi