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Palo Duro Canyon and the fall of the Comanche

Palo Duro Canyon, Texas · 1874

Palo Duro Canyon and the fall of the Comanche

Colonel Mackenzie surprised the winter camps in the canyon in September 1874 and had roughly 1,400 captured horses shot. Left afoot and without stores, the southern plains bands surrendered the following year.

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