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  2. Palo Duro Canyon - Wikipedia

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    Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment located in the Texas Panhandle near the cities of Amarillo and Canyon. [2] A large canyon system in the south-central United States, it is roughly 25–40 mi (40–64 km) long and has an average width of 6 mi (9.7 km), but reaches a width of 20 mi (32 km) at places.

  3. Battle of Palo Duro Canyon - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon was a military confrontation and a significant United States victory during the Red River War. [2] [3] The battle occurred on September 28, 1874, when several U.S. Army companies under Ranald S. Mackenzie attacked a large encampment of Plains Indians in Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle.

  4. Palo Duro Canyon paintings of O'Keeffe - Wikipedia

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    Georgia O'Keeffe and friends at the Palo Duro Club, at the head of Palo Duro Canyon, perhaps between 1912 and 1913, when she first went to Texas, or between 1916 and 1918. [3] Now a state park, it is the second largest canyon in the United States and is called the "Grand Canyon of Texas".

  5. Caprock Escarpment - Wikipedia

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    The escarpment's features formed by erosion from rivers and streams, creating arroyos and highly diverse terrain, including the large Palo Duro Canyon southeast of Amarillo, Texas. [1] One will notice the change in elevation of several hundred feet while crossing the Caprock Escarpment on Interstate 40 between Adrian, Texas and San Jon, New ...

  6. Charles Goodnight - Wikipedia

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    To take advantage of available grass, timber, water, and game, Goodnight founded in 1876 what was to become the first Texas Panhandle ranch, the JA Ranch, in the Palo Duro Canyon. [7] [8] By 1885, the ranch covered 1,325,000 acres and held 100,000 head of cattle. [6]

  7. JA Ranch - Wikipedia

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    After starting a ranching operation in eastern Colorado, he returned to the Palo Duro Canyon area (site of a major operation he led against the Kiowa and Comanche), and established a small ranch in 1874. He then entered into a partnership with John Adair, a wealthy landowner from Co. Laois in Ireland, who funded the ranch's expansion while ...

  8. Palo Duro - Wikipedia

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    Palo Duro can refer to: Palo Duro Canyon, a canyon system in Texas, U.S. Palo Duro Creek, a river in Texas, U.S. Palo Duro High School, a high school in the Amarillo ...

  9. Trujillo Formation - Wikipedia

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    The formation crops out along Palo Duro Canyon and the Canadian River and their tributaries. [1] It is also widespread in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. [4] The formation is interpreted as deposition in a braided stream system. [5] The lower beds at Palo Duro Canyon contain unusual cone-shaped iron concretions that likely formed in the vadose ...