Yellowhouse Canyon

In December 1876 Quahadi Comanches under Black Horse left Fort Sill on a hunting permit, angry at the slaughter of the buffalo, and on February 1 killed hunter Marshall Sewell. Forty-six hunters set out from Rath City on March 4 and on March 18 attacked the camp in what is now the Lubbock Lake site. Comanche women fired pistols at the charging riders, the hunters fell back, and only one of them died. On May 4 the Tenth Cavalry overtook the band at Quemado Lake and returned it to Fort Sill.

What the plaque says

Yellowhouse Canyon Known to Spanish explorers of the 17th and 18th centuries - Described by Albert Pike who visited the region in 1832 - The last battle in Lubbock County between white buffalo hunters and the red men who had called the plains their own occurred on this site in 1877 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• American Windmill Museum — 1.0 mi
  Lubbock's park of restored water-pumping windmills and early wind chargers, more than 70 of them turning outdoors and the rare ones under roof, with a megawatt-era turbine overhead.
• Buddy Holly Center — 1.1 mi
  The city's museum of Buddy Holly and West Texas music in a 1928 railway depot, with the house where the Crickets worked on That'll Be the Day moved next door.
• National Ranching Heritage Center — 2.8 mi
  A Texas Tech outdoor museum where ranch houses, barns, windmills and a depot from across the ranching country were moved one by one onto a single park beside the campus.
• Lubbock Lake Landmark — 3.7 mi
  A bend of Yellow House Draw on Lubbock's north edge where digging has found nearly 12,000 years of people on the Southern High Plains, layer on layer, from Clovis to the 1880s.

More markers nearby

• General Ranald Slidell Mackenzie — 0.5 mi
• Migrant Labor Camps of Lubbock County — 0.6 mi
• Mackenzie Scout Trail — 0.7 mi
• Colonel T. S. Lubbock and Texas in the Civil War — 0.8 mi