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Rangers Battle Black Horse Band on the Concho
In 1878 near Fort Concho Texas Rangers led by Corpal Douglas clashed with Comanche warriors led by Black Horse on the Concho and Five Wells. The seven Rangers fought off an estimated two dozen riders suffering wounded and lost pack mules before stubbornly pursuing the retreating Indians.
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Frontier Battalion of
Texas Rangers
Concho
Fort Concho
San Angelo
Black Horse
Fort Sill
Col. Cook
United States Army
U. S. Army
Cook
Corporal Douglas
Big Springs
China Ponds
Monument Springs
Fort Chadbourne
Shaft
Sill
Shafter
North Concho
Sterling City
Shafter Trail
Rangers
Belive
Peak
Cedar Lake
Arrington
Signal Mountain
Douglas
Texas
Oran M. Roberts
Jones
War Department
Pearce