The Texas Canyon Battle Where U.S. Cavalry Captured 1,400 Native Horses — Then Destroyed About 1,000 Of Them
The cavalry suffered no casualties.
Four Indian dead were counted.
About 1,000 horses were shot.
And the Southern Plains people drifted back to their reservations.
That is what happened at Palo Duro Canyon.
That is why it mattered.
That is what the marker on Park Road 5, in Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Randall County, Texas, recorded in 1967.
And that is what the canyon, in its beauty and its silence and its geology, holds today.
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