Quanah Parker Trail Arrow- Palo Duro Canyon, Texas
Posted by: leadhiker
N 34° 28.619 W 101° 32.122
14S E 267153 N 3817962
Quanah Parker never forgot that nearby on Sept. 28 & 29, 1874, the
U.S. Army shot 1,048 Indian horses
Waymark Code: WMTHG9
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/26/2016
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A 22-foot-tall steel arrow by artist Charles A. Smith marks sites where the Comanches, and their last chief, Quanah Parker, hunted, traded, lived, traveled, and fought.
What started out as a group of enthusiastic regional citizens interested in telling the fascinating story of Cynthia Ann and Quanah Parker turned into a public art and commemorative project to mark the sites of Native history in the former Comancheria. Since 2011, the Texas Plains Trail Region's Quanah Parker Trail Steering Committee has facilitated the research about these sites, and overseen installation of more than 70 arrows marking the nearly forgotten-to-public-memory history of the Native American Comanche presence in the Texas Panhandle, predating the arrival of Anglo ranchers and settlers.
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