The Texas Canyon Battle Where U.S. Cavalry Captured 1,400 Native Horses — Then Destroyed About 1,000 Of Them
The Adobe Walls Context: What Led To 1874
The June 1874 battle at Adobe Walls was not the only precipitating event for the Red River War, but it was the most dramatic and the most consequential for the escalation that followed.
Adobe Walls was a trading post established by commercial buffalo hunters and their suppliers in the Canadian River area of the Texas Panhandle — territory that the Medicine Lodge Treaty had designated as protected Indian hunting grounds.
The post existed precisely because the commercial hunting trade had moved into that territory, and its presence was itself a violation of the treaty framework.
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