W. B. Anglin

Anglin died in the year of the last recorded clash between settlers and Comanches in what is now Midland County. In 1879 twenty-five Comanches led by Black Horse were given permission to leave their reservation to hunt buffalo. Finding none, they took horses from local ranches for food, and Texas Rangers surprised them while they were eating one of the stolen animals. The hunt had failed for a larger reason: through the 1870s buffalo hunters had destroyed the great herds of the region, forcing the Comanches and their neighbors off their old range.

What the plaque says

W. B. Anglin A member, Company B, Frontier Battalion of Texas Rangers. Killed near here while trailing Comanche Indian raiding party on July 1, 1879. He was buried on the spot where he fell. A native of Virginia, member of one of its first families, he joined rangers in 1875 at about age 25. Anglin was last man to be killed by Indians in central west Texas. He was known for his bravery, kindness, good humor and unceasing devotion to duty. Recorded - 1967

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bush Family Home State Historic Site — 1.0 mi
  The small 1939 frame house on West Ohio Avenue where George and Barbara Bush raised their young family in Midland's 1950s oil boom, now a Texas Historical Commission site.
• Museum of the Southwest — 1.4 mi
  Midland's art and science museum in the 1937 house of oilman Fred Turner and his wife Juliette, with added galleries, a children's museum and a planetarium on the grounds.
• Permian Basin Petroleum Museum — 2.8 mi
  Midland's museum of the oil basin it sits on, from a restored diorama of the Permian reef to a 40-acre yard of drilling rigs and Jim Hall's Chaparral race cars.
• Midland Army Air Field Museum — 8.9 mi
  A hangar museum at Midland's airport, run by Commemorative Air Force volunteers, telling how a 1927 grass field became the bombardier college that graduated 6,627 officers in World War II.

More markers nearby

• Fairview Cemetery — steps away
• First Christian Church of Midland — 0.8 mi
• George Bush Family Home — 1.0 mi
• Midland National Bank — 1.0 mi