Scouts

A year later, four scouts played a decisive role in the Red River War, which was the last major stand of the Comanches, Kiowas, and Southern Cheyenne. One of the heroes was scout Adam Paine, whom an observer described as “a big black kinky headed negro, wearing horns.” Paine (the surname can be traced to King Payne of the eighteenth-century Florida Seminoles) won the Medal of Honor for demonstrating “habitual courage” and bravery under fire.