Quannah Parker Trail Arrow - Lubbock, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 33° 35.131 W 101° 49.446
14S E 237899 N 3719775
Located on the grounds of the American Museum of Agriculture in Yellow House Canyon. Plaque Text: Nomadic Inians gathered for food plants, native to Yellow House Canyon. Hackberry * Plum * Grape * Cactus Fruit
Waymark Code: WM168QB
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/02/2022
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Quanah Parker Trail"Where cattle now graze and crops grow in fields in Garza County, buffalo once roamed. The wandering herds sustained the Comanche, providing both a source of food and also hides and other materials useful to the nomadic tribe. The Comanche were dismayed to see the buffalo herds decimated by hunters who killed the beasts solely for their hides.
The killing and scalping of buffalo hunter Marshall Sewell in February 1877 by Quahadi Comanche Black Horse -- who had watched Sewell kill buffalo with his Sharps rifle -- precipitated the Staked Plains War, also called the Hunters’ War. The brief war culminated with the Battle of Yellow House Canyon on March 18, 1877 near present-day Lubbock. Sewell and his skinners had been camped and hunting in present-day Garza County, west of present-day Post, when Sewell and Black Horse clashed over the slaughter of the buffalo.
The Battle of Yellow House Canyon ended the last Indian uprising on the Texas High Plains."