Kau-Tau-Bone Gotebo

© Rita Collvins Mayfield

Kau-Tau-Bone was a sub chief of the Kiowa. He was born in 1847, between the Colorado Mountains and Texas, and died in 1927. He is buried in the Rainy Mountain Cemetery, between Gotebo (the town named for him) and Mountain View.

Kau-Tau-Bone rode on many raids with the Kiowa during his time on the plains. As the wars on the prairie were winding down, he rode with a group of scouts in 1875, who were sent to persuade Lone Wolf to come in on the reservation. Among this group, led by Big Bow, were San Deigo, Gum-bi, Guot-sai, Tape-day-ah, Po-hau-ah, Se-loh, Tsain-tonkee (Hunting Horse) and Go-ah-te-bo.

Kau-Tau-Bone was one of the first Kiowas to be baptized in the 1880's at the Rainy Mountain Church. He and his wife, Ome-boke had no children. She was the sister of Big Tree. Stories were told by both white and Indian people of the county of the many kind deeds he did. Church records show he accepted the white man's pronunciation and spelling of his name, and changed it to Gotebo, after the town named for him.

During the flood in May, 1903, the Jasper Giles family was living south of the Rainy Mountain Cemetery. Their home was swept away in the flood. Giles and his older son were clinging to a tree, when Gotebo heard them early the next morning, then swam out and saved them. Their younger son were found later, downstream, drowned.

 

Rewritten by: JoJo.

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