LONE WOLF. (I) A noted Kiowa chief, ISGG-1879, and leader of the hostile element in the last outbreak in 1874. His name in his native language, Gui-pii,qo, was hereditary in his family. He succeeded to the head chieftainship in 1860. but was not among the signers of the Medicine Lodge Treaty the following year. by which the Kiowa agreed to come upon a reserva tion, and it was not until Custer, who had se cured possession of him and Satanta after the battle of the Washita, threatened to hang them both that they consented to bring in their people in the spring of 1869. The several tribes party to the treaty continued restless. however, Lone Wolf himself being one of the most defiant, until a delegation, headed by him. was made up and proceeded to Washington in 1872 to adjust their differences. Some good result might have been effected, hut, unfortunately, shortly after the re turn of the delegation Lone Wolf's favorite son and nephew were killed while raiding into Mexico. On this he swore vengeance, and, going down into :Mexico with a small party, brought back the hones of his son for burial, returning just in time to head the war element of the Kiowa in the outbreak of the Southern tribes in the summer of 1874. His first encounter with the troops oc
curred at the agency at Anadarko, August 22d.
From that time the campaign was pressed vigor ously under General 3Iaekenzie until the spring of 1875, when, one after another, the hostile chiefs, including Lone Wolf. came in and sur rendered. Seventy warriors, including Lone Wolf and twenty-five other Kiowa, were selected for deportation to Florida, where they were held as prisoners at Fort Marion until May, 1878, when the survivors were returned to their tribes. He died the next year. having previously •on ferred his name and succession upon the present chief of that name.
(2) The adopted son and successor of the great Lone Wolf. He had been the close companion of the chief's son, killed in Mexico, in consequence of which Lone Wolf adopted him to till the va cant place, and afterwards appointed him his successor by giving him his own name. In 1S92 he signed the treaty for the sale of the Kiowa Reservation, in spite of the remonstrance of the majority of his tribe, but afterwards repudiated the document on the ground of deception.