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 Site of Lyman's Wagon Train Battle Posted by:  YoSam.
N 35° 47.622 W 100° 13.171
14S E 389799 N 3961753
95 against 400, sometimes you can't even breath.
Waymark Code: WM6MR1
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/22/2009
Views: 11
Marker Erected by: State Historical Survey Committee.
Date Marker Erected:1967.
County of Marker: Hemphill County.
Location of Marker: TX-33, 10 miles E. of Jct. with US-60 & US-83, 7 miles S. of Canadian.
Marker Number: 4826
Marker Text:
(2.5 miles South, 1.7 miles East)
During the U.S. Army campaigns in 1874 against marauding Indians, Capt. Wyllys Lyman led a wagon train to Camp Supply, Okla., for rations for Gen. Nelson A. Miles' troops on duty in Texas. On the way, Indians attacked, and the longest Indian battle in Panhandle history ensued.
Fighting from a wagon corral September 9 to 14, Lyman and 95 soldiers held off about 400 Comanche and Kiowa Indians. A scout escaped and reached Camp Supply for help.
Company K, 6th Cavalry, traveled 80 miles without rest in a raging rainstorm to aid the wagon train. On its arrival, the Indians fled.
(1967)
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