When they insisted that the low valuation was partly due to the fact that much of the surplus land was rocky and mountainous, Quanah countered: ‘I have noticed that coal is burned in such localities, and that iron, silver, and gold are found in such places.’ Later he added: ‘The mountains are all supposed to be rocks and the rocks are supposed to be worthless, but the military use them to make houses with . . .’ Thus it went, Quanah hectoring them every step of the way. He was unlike any of the other Indian leaders, who tended to be long winded, delivering rambling, occasionally poetic
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