 Later, Tonkawa, Aranamas, Tamiques, Karankawa.Tawakoni, Lipan Apache and Comanche lived and hunted in the county.The first European visitors to the county are thought to have been Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and his slave Estevanico of the ill-fated 1528 Narváez expedition.