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Mackenzie the Indian Fighter who opened West Texas to settlement
Brig. Gen. Ranald Slidell Mackenzie earned praise as Texas frontier Indian fighter and organizer. From 1871 he cleared Comanches and Kiowas, crossed into Mexico in 1873 to pursue raiders, and led raids from San Antonio to the Rio Grande. His bold campaigns helped push settlement west of the Panhandle, with later commands across the frontier and a final rise to brigadier general before retirement and death in 1889.
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Texas
Ranald Slidell Mackenzie
Department of Texas
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Lubbock
Mackenzie State Park
Mackenzie
Henrietta
Red River
98Th Meridian
Junction
Rio Grande
Robert G. Carter
U. S. Cavalry
4Th Cavalry
Thorougly
West
Quanah Parker
Parker
Mexico
Phil Sheridan
Remolina
Sheridan
General Grant
Little Big Horn
Missouri
Ft. Sill
Indian Territory
Nebraska
Powder River
5Th Cavalry
Red Cloud
Chadron Creek
Neb
George Crook
Wyoming Territory
Big Horn Mountains
Dull Knife
Utah
Arizona
Fort Apache
Ariz
Santa Fe
N. M
New Brighton
Staten Island
Grant
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