Buffalo Hunters' War
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Buffalo Hunter's War | |||||||
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Part of the Texas–Indian wars, Apache Wars | |||||||
Black Horse with his wife and child at Fort Marion, Florida. | |||||||
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Hank Campbell - Buffalo hunters | Black Horse - Comanche |
The Buffalo Hunters' War, or the Staked Plains War, occurred in 1877. Approximately 170
Forty-five hunters, led by Hank Campbell, Jim Smith, and Joe Freed, and guided by Jose Tafoya, left Rath City, a trading post on the Double Mountain Fork Brazos River. Smoky Hill Thompson remained behind to lead the defense of the trading post.[citation needed]
The party trailed the natives to their camp in Thompson's Canyon, now known as Yellow House Canyon in present-day Lubbock, Texas, where they attacked on March 18. The hunters were repulsed and the natives escaped, including white captive Herman Lehmann, who was wounded in the battle.[citation needed]
The hunters' casualties were four wounded and one later dying from wounds. It was later reported by the military that the natives suffered 35 dead and 22 wounded.[citation needed]
See also
References
- Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
- The Border and the Buffalo by John R. Cook, 1907, Citadel Press (1967)
- Black Horse from the Handbook of Texas Online
- Battle of Yellow House Canyon from the Handbook of Texas Online
- In 1877, Mackenzie Park was site of a deadly battle. Lubbock Online, Nov. 27, 2007