Winning West Texas From the Comanches - Personalized Limited Edition

"This campaign was not only comprehensive, but was the most successful of any Indian Campaign in this country..." That's how General Sheridan described Ranald "Bad Hand" Mackenzie's campaign against the Kiowas and Comanches in 1874-75. That campaign included the decisive Battle of Palo Duro Canyon.  The actions of Mackenzie and the 4th U. S. Cavalry were documented by one of his officers - a young West Point graduate, Robert Goldthwaite Carter, who arrived in Texas in 1870. The newly married Carter honeymooned in a tent at Fort Concho. Within a year, he had rendered gallant service that would make him a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Carter's military career was short, thanks to wounds received in battle in 1876 but he packed a lifetime into six years on the Texas frontier. The Fourth Cavalry made tracks through the Texas frontier forts (Belknap, Clark, Richardson, McKavett, Phantom Hill, Griffin, and Concho), into present-day Oklahoma, Kansas, and into Mexico in pursuit of n