The people survived.

And the canyon, in its geological patience, holds the record of all of it: the battle, the destruction, the survival, the meaning.

That is the final accounting of what happened at Palo Duro Canyon.

The cavalry suffered no casualties.

Four Indian dead were counted.

Fourteen hundred horses were captured.

About one thousand were later destroyed.

Having lost half their horses as well as all their supplies and shelter, the people drifted back to their reservations.