Fort Clark

By the mid-1870s, most of the scouts and their families were living in Brackettville, Texas, around Fort Clark, where John Horse himself had moved by 1876. They settled along the banks of Las Moras creek, the same creek where the emigrants paused before crossing into Mexico in 1850. They built “chink houses” made of mud mixed with stone and straw in the northern Mexican style. Women managed the domestic chores, tended kitchen gardens, and earned side income working for families around the fort. About 30 men eked out a meager living as scouts.