Cullen Baker Reconstruction Outlaw Cache — Bowie County

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Cullen Baker Reconstruction Outlaw Cache — Bowie County

Lost Treasure TX • Bowie County County
Description
Bowie County legend of Cullen Baker guerrilla loot — when the "Swamp Fox of the Sulphur" eluded federal troops and Freedmen's Bureau agents in northeast Texas during Reconstruction.
Historical Notes
In July 1867 federal troops were stationed in Bowie County for the first time under Freedmen's Bureau agent William G. Kirkman. Kirkman and his men attempted to arrest the notorious killer Cullen Baker; Baker escaped, leaving one soldier dead and others wounded. Bowie County TSHA records that Baker and his gang were credited with murdering two Freedmen's Bureau agents and numerous Black residents while eluding the army. Many White residents helped Baker evade capture; Kirkman was murdered in 1868, ruled "murder by person or persons unknown." Reconstruction outlaw folklore imagines raid loot and pay chests cached in Sulphur River bottomlands. Baker was killed in neighboring Cass County in January 1869. Coordinates mark central Bowie County between Texarkana and Boston.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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