Battle of Adobe Walls

More than one camp stood along the Canadian that morning. Dohäsan's Kiowa village was struck first, but a Comanche village of 500 lodges lay within a mile, and Kiowa-Apache lodges, the people now called the Plains Apache, burned at dusk; their chief Iron Shirt died refusing to leave his tepee. Estimates put Native dead at 100 to 150, and 176 lodges with their robes and winter provisions were destroyed. The ground drew Native fighters again in 1874, when Cheyenne, Comanche and Kiowa under Quanah Parker and Isa-tai attacked buffalo hunters nearby. The granite stands on private land.

What the plaque says

Battle of Adobe Walls Was fought here November 25, 1864, when Colonel Christopher (Kit) Carson (1809-1868) with a few companies of United States troops under the protection of the Adobe Walls attacked a band of hostile Kiowa and Comanche Indians and killed over 60 braves. This was "Kit" Carson's last fight. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hutchinson County Museum — 19 mi
  Borger's museum on the three-mile Main Street of a 1926 oil boom town that drew 45,000 people in ninety days and was put under martial law in 1929.
• White Deer Land Museum — 26 mi
  The 1916 Pampa office of the land company that sold a foreclosed British ranch to wheat farmers, with an annex holding one of the Panhandle's largest Red River War collections.
• Woody Guthrie Folk Music Center — 26 mi
  The old Harris Drug Store in Pampa, where a young Woody Guthrie jerked sodas and found his first guitar, now a folk music center with Friday night jam sessions.
• Lake Meredith National Recreation Area — 29 mi
  A Canadian River reservoir in 200-foot breaks, built to water the Panhandle's cities, that fell to a record 26 feet deep in 2013 and still rises and falls with the drought.

More markers nearby

• Drift Fence — 11 mi
• Holt Cemetery — 11 mi
• Drift Fence — 14 mi
• First Battle of Adobe Walls — 16 mi