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Lone Wolf
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Lone Wolf, d. 1879, Kiowa Chief. He led some Kiowas Kiowa Apache, a small group of North American Native Americans traditionally associated with the Kiowa from the earliest times, now live with them. The Kiowa Apache retain their own language. There were close to 9,500 Kiowa in the United States in 1990.
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 on raids in 1874 after his son had been killed by whites, but he was defeated and with a number of followers was deported to Florida, where he remained in military confinement for three years; he died one year after his release.


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And, the very nature of large crop or livestock operations also makes producers act like lone wolves.
Despite the knocks that committees have taken since time immemorial, and the difficulties that those lone wolves among us have in working within such a structure, when all is said and done a well organized and focused committee is worth its weight in gold.
Our earliest members were the new cowboys -- reluctantly used to being lone wolves," said Jim Lansing, management consultant and current President of PATCA.
 
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