Fifteen miles to the Site of the Battle of Adobe Walls

The fight came after a night march. Warned by scouts on November 24, Carson left his infantry and wagons at Mule Springs and pushed on with the cavalry and two mountain howitzers, waiting out the frost without fires. At about 8:30 A.M. he struck a Kiowa village of 150 lodges, then made his stand at Bent's old adobe ruins. All day Kiowa and Comanche fighters, peoples organized today as the Kiowa Tribe and the Comanche Nation, charged, and the howitzers on a small rise kept them back. When they fired the bottomland grass, Carson set fires of his own.

What the plaque says

Fifteen miles to the site of the Battle of Adobe Walls. Fought on November 25, 1864 between Kiowa and Comanche Indians and United States troops commanded by Colonel Christopher Carson, 1809-1868. This was "Kit" Carson's last fight.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hutchinson County Museum — 5.2 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.
• Lake Meredith National Recreation Area — 12 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.
• Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument — 20 mi
  Hand-dug pits on a mesa above the Canadian River where people quarried banded flint for thousands of years and traded it across the Plains, seen on a ranger-led climb.
• White Deer Land Museum — 29 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.

More markers nearby

• Bents Creek — steps away
• Plemons Cemetery — steps away
• Gulf Dial #1 Oil Well — 3.4 mi
• Twentieth Century Club — 5.2 mi