The Warren Wagontrain Raid--one of the most important and controversial events in nineteenth-century Texas history--took place in the spring of 1871, near the present town of Graham. A band of Kiowa attacked a wagontrain belonging to Captain Henry Warren, a government contractor, killing a wagonmaster and six teamsters. One man was tied to a wagon wheel and burned alive; all were scalped escept one who was bald. Forty-one mules were stolen. Only five men escaped. As a result of this brutal massacre General William Tecumseh Sherman began to take Indian activity on the frontier more seriously; u... View More...
