Tehan

Frank Baldwin

(TSHA) Tehan (Tahan) was a white captive of the Kiowa Indians whose unwitting role in the Red River War propelled him briefly into the limelight during the taming of the Panhandle frontier.
Tehan was taken by the Indians when he was a child, perhaps between five and ten. The Indians called him Tehan ("Texan"). He was subsequently adopted by the Kiowa medicine man Maman-ti and grew up to become a fierce, proud warrior. Except for his red hair, fair skin, and bull-like neck, he was pure Kiowa, and he reportedly committed several depredations on whites as an apprentice brave during the early 1870s.
Tehan was about eighteen when the Red River War broke out in the summer of 1874. He was among those who fled the Wichita Agency in late August and camped near the upper Washita River in what is now Hemphill County while traveling west toward Palo Duro Canyon. On September 8 he rode back toward a previous campsite to look for some stray horses. Continued