Lone Wolf (Kiowa)

Guipago, better known as Lone Wolf ( * around 1820 in the area of the Staked Plains, † April 1879 near Fort Sill ), was an upper - chief of the Kiowa Indians.

Lone Wolf was the successor of Dohäsan and an implacable enemy of the whites. He was a member of the elite warrior society Tsetanma. 1863 and 1872 he traveled to Washington, DC, to secure the release of Satanta and Big Tree, thanks to his brilliant negotiating strategy succeeded. With other Indians, he signed on 16 October 1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge. After 1873, his son was killed in a Kiowa raid in southern Texas, he began again with raids on settlers, Mexicans and Americans. In July 1874 he fought in the Lost Valley Fight in Young County (Texas ) against Texas Rangers under Major John B. Jones. On September 9, 1874, he attacked on the Washita River, Hemphill County ( Texas), General Miles supply column ( 5th Infantry ) under Captain Lyman. He besieged the train for several days, arrived from camp to supply support. After much resistance, he also surrendered with the last 250 living in freedom Kiowas on 26 February 1875 in Fort Sill, where he was brought by exiled to Fort Marion (Florida ). He died in April 1879, shortly after his release, near Fort Sill, from malaria.