The Texas Canyon Battle Where U.S. Cavalry Captured 1,400 Native Horses — Then Destroyed About 1,000 Of Them
The northers of the Panhandle were known and feared.
They could arrive rapidly, dropping temperatures by twenty or thirty degrees in hours, turning clear autumn days into blizzard conditions.
Without adequate shelter — the thick buffalo-hide tipis that the people in Palo Duro Canyon had accumulated through the summer — surviving a northern blizzard required either finding natural shelter in a canyon or draw, or having enough people and materials to construct improvised windbreaks and to maintain body heat through crowding and fuel.
The families who fled Palo Duro Canyon in September 1874 had neither their tipis nor adequate horses to carry the materials needed to construct replacements.
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