Meusebach-Comanche Treaty Site (Comanche Chief's Camp, Llano River)

The negotiations happened here — or near enough here that it matters. In March 1847, John O. Meusebach met with Penateka Comanche chiefs along the lower San Saba River Basin, roughly twenty-five miles from the Colorado River, and worked out terms that held. The treaty opened more than three million acres to settlement and promised mutual protection, mutual accountability, and free passage in both directions. It is one of the few pacts with Native Americans that was never broken. In 1936, a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark marker — number 991 — was placed in San Saba County to mark what happened here.