170 Lone Bear

170 LONE BEAR, "Tar-lo," Kiowa The Kiowa are a prairie people, and part of the Shoshone family who occupy the country around the head-waters of the Arkansas River. History remembers them as some of fiercest warriors. Following the Red River War of 1874-75, in which the Kiowa lost their bid to remain a free and nomadic people, they were confined to a reservation within the Indian Territory of Oklahoma. Shown here in typical dress of an Osage boy,Lone Bear poses for Soule's camera. Photograph by Will Soule, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, c. 1868