CANYON, Texas (KWTX) - On September 28, 1874, the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon happened. Encampments of Comanches, Kiowas, Kiowa Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arapahos were attacked by the Fourth United ...
Members of four Southern Plains tribes gathered at Palo Duro State Park to remember the 1874 battle, which marked the end of Native resistance to Texas’s new Anglo regime.