The Texas Canyon Battle Where U.S. Cavalry Captured 1,400 Native Horses — Then Destroyed About 1,000 Of Them
The Months After Palo Duro
The immediate aftermath of the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon was not the mass surrender of the Southern Plains peoples.
That surrender would come over the following months, piecemeal, as individual bands and leaders made the calculation that continued resistance was impossible.
Some context for what “drifted back to their reservations” meant in practice:
In late October 1874, a band of Kiowas arrived at the Wichita Agency and surrendered, citing the destruction of their camps and the impossibility of maintaining the off-reservation life they had been attempting.
In November, groups of Cheyenne began coming in to the agencies, with accounts of freezing, hungry people who had found no other option.
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