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Adobe Walls is a ghost town in Hutchinson County, 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Stinnett, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was established in 1843 as a trading post for buffalo hunters and local Native American trade in the vicinity of the Canadian River. It later became a ranching community.
Adobe Walls is located in a very remote area of the Texas Panhandle which made it rather hard to find, but it is definitely worth the effort.
A decade after the First Battle of Adobe Walls, several merchants from Dodge City, Kansas, following the buffalo hunters south into the Texas Panhandle, established a large complex called the Myers and Leonard Store near the Fort Adobe ruins.
The Second Battle of Adobe Walls was fought on June 27, 1874, between Comanche forces and a group of 28 Texan bison hunters defending the settlement of Adobe Walls, in what is now Hutchinson County, Texas.
Adobe Walls was the name given several trading posts and later a ranching community located seventeen miles northeast of Stinnett and just north of the Canadian River in what is now northeastern Hutchinson County.
The Battle of Adobe Walls occurred on November 25, 1864, in the vicinity of Adobe Walls, the ruins of William Bent's abandoned adobe trading post and saloon, located on the northern side of the Canadian River 17 miles (27 km) northeast of present-day Stinnett in Hutchinson County. [5]
Visitations and tours to such places as Adobe Walls, Palo Duro Canyon, Hutchison County Museum in Borger Texas, and the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon are raising awareness of these invaluable resources to the past.
The second battle of Adobe Walls occurred on June 27, 1874, when a buffalo hunters' camp, built in the spring of that year in what is now Hutchinson County, about a mile from the adobe ruins known as Adobe Walls was attacked by a party of about 700 Plains Indians, mostly Cheyennes, Comanches, and Kiowas, under the leadership of Quanah Parker ...
Adobe Walls was a Texas Panhandle outpost established in the early 1840s as a marketplace for white trade with Indians in the area. But by 1848, conflict with aggressive Comanches forced the...
The first battle of Adobe Walls occurred on November 25, 1864, in the vicinity of Adobe Walls, the remains of William Bent's abandoned adobe fort near the Canadian River in what is now Hutchinson County.