The Texas Canyon Battle Where U.S. Cavalry Captured 1,400 Native Horses — Then Destroyed About 1,000 Of Them
They came as survivors.
The Battle In Popular Memory
The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon has not, historically, occupied the same place in American popular consciousness as other battles of the Indian War era.
Custer’s Last Stand at the Little Bighorn in 1876 — which occurred two years later, and in which the Army was defeated rather than victorious — has dominated the popular memory of the Plains Indian wars in ways that battles like Palo Duro have not.
This asymmetry in popular memory reflects, in part, the preference for dramatic battlefield narrative over strategic analysis.
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