Editing Kimble County, Texas (section)

===Early years===
Prior to the arrival of foreign settlers, the area that later became Kimble County was inhabited by several Native American groups, including the [[Comanche]], [[Kiowa]], [[Kiowa Apache]], and [[Lipan Apache people|Lipan Apache]].<ref name="Texas Handbook">{{cite web | url = https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hck07 | title = Kimble County, Texas |   publisher = [[The Handbook of Texas]] online | access-date = June 17, 2009}}</ref> The first Europeans to encounter the area were the [[Spanish people|Spanish]], who led several campaigns against the local Indian tribes in the mid-18th century. In 1808, Spanish Captain Francisco Amangual commanded a military expedition from [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]] to [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] and mapped a road, which passed through what is now Kimble County. The area was first mentioned in [[Republic of Texas]] documents in 1842, when about 416,000 acres of the present county were included in the [[Fisher–Miller Land Grant]], which extended from the [[Llano River]] to the [[Colorado River (Texas)|Colorado River]].