Brushy Mound

Duane's take

The marker tells it plain, and I'm just gonna pass it along the way it was handed to me. Now, you see that mound out there? That rise in the land with the kind of height that makes a person want to climb it just to see what they can see?

Well, here's the thing — somebody else had that same idea, long before you came rolling through Montague County. From that lookout, the Kiowas and Comanches watched. They stood up on that summit and spied on the early settlers moving through the country below, patient as the land itself, waiting before launching their unexpected attacks.

And up on that same summit — the very top of that natural watchtower — an Indian chief lies buried. Has been all along. So that mound was carrying two things at once: the eyes of the living, scanning the horizon, and the rest of the dead, keeping their silence underneath it all.

Brushy Mound. Depending on which side of that hill your people were on, it meant something very different.

What the marker says

From this lookout on whose summit an indian chief lies buried, Kiowas and Comanches spied on early settlers before launching unexpected attacks.