Pampa: White Deer Land Museum

Two storey red brick building

White Deer Land Museum

Portrait of Cheyenne leader Grey Beard

Grey Beard, (National Anthropological Archives)

Portrait of Lieutenant Henry Farnsworth

Lieutenant Henry Farnsworth (U.S. Army Military History Institute)

Portrait of Lieutenant Frank Baldwin

Lieutenant Frank Baldwin

Vintage newspaper photograph of two girls with caption saying Julia (5 years) and Addie (7 years) German. Taken in December 1874. These girls were rescued by US troops under Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin, November 8, 1874.

German Sisters, 1874

Vintage cartoon of US troops attacking a group of Indians labeled “Frank D. Baldwin’s charge on Grey Beard’s Band, McClellan’s Creek, Texas, Nov 8, 1874”

Grey Beard’s Band, Frank Baldwin’s charge on McClellan’s Creek, Texas, Nov. 8, 1874. (National Records and Archives Administration)

Display case with mannequin of young girl and a sign saying German sisters rescue, Gray County 1874

German Sisters Rescue Exhibit

The White Deer Land Museum in Pampa documents the two Red River War battles waged in Gray County. Both involved the formidable Southern Cheyenne medicine man and chief Grey Beard.


Grey Beard elected not to sign the 1865 Medicine Lodge Treaty, an agreement with the U.S. government stripping Plains tribes of traditional tribal territories in favor of relocation to reservation land in what is now Oklahoma. He continued to fight the U.S. Army until 1871, bringing his band onto the reservation. Living conditions and the decimation of bison herds caused him to re-engage in conflict through the end of the Red River War. Learn about Grey Beard’s role in the Red River War here. 


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