The Texas Canyon Battle Where U.S. Cavalry Captured 1,400 Native Horses — Then Destroyed About 1,000 Of Them
The human story is carried by the descendants of the people who were there, and by the historical record that preserves, however imperfectly, what happened on September 28, 1874.
The cavalry captured 1,400 horses.
About 1,000 were later destroyed.
That is the headline and it is true.
The deeper truth is what those horses meant, and what their loss cost, and who paid that cost through the winter that followed.
The people who paid it survived.
They are still here.
Their history includes this canyon, and what happened here, and the understanding that a battle with four recorded dead became one of the most consequential actions of a war that ended the free life of the Southern Plains.
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