Sherman House

One of the three Kiowa leaders arrested at the May 1871 council never reached a courtroom. Sét:àñ:gyà, Sitting Bear, known as Satank, led the Koitsenko, the society of the bravest Kiowa warriors, and after his son was killed raiding in Texas in 1870 he carried some of his son's bones with him. Sherman sent the men to Texas to be tried for murder as common felons, denying them any standing as prisoners of war. On June 8, 1871, a mile down the road, Satank sang his death song, slipped his chains, seized a guard's rifle and was shot.

What the plaque says

Sherman House This house of native stone was built by 10th Cavalry troops in 1870-71. While visiting Fort Sill, General William Tecumseh Sherman narrowly escaped death at the hands of Kiowa warriors during a council held on the front porch here, May 27, 1871. Oklahoma Historical Society, 1956

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum — steps away
  The stone post of 1869 on a working Army base, open to civilians after a background check, where the Chiricahua Apache were held as prisoners of war from 1894 to 1914.
• Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center — 3.7 mi
  The Comanche Nation's own museum in Lawton, built so that the history, art and lifeways of the Nʉmʉnʉʉ, The People, are told from a Comanche perspective.
• Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge — 14 mi
  Worn granite peaks and mixed-grass prairie in Comanche and Kiowa homeland, set aside in 1901 and restocked in 1907 with fifteen bison sent by train from the New York Zoological Park.
• Chisholm Trail Heritage Center — 25 mi
  Duncan's museum of the cattle trail on US-81, with an 18-minute drive film, a western art gallery and the route through the Chickasaw Nation to Silver City and the Canadian.

More markers nearby

• Craterville Park — 14 mi
• Walters, Oklahoma — 22 mi
• Battle of the Wichita Village — 26 mi