[dropcap]A[/dropcap]cting like the Paul Revere of the Texas Panhandle, Pat Garrett rode from camp to camp on Feb. 22, 1877 warning fellow buffalo hunters, “The Comanches are coming!  The Comanches are coming!”

That, of course, was not altogether true.  The Indians had been in the vicinity for weeks but posed no real danger to white hunters with sense enough to keep their distance.

The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 set aside the so-called “Staked Plains,” much of western O...