Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment located in the Texas Panhandle near the cities of Amarillo and Canyon. As one of the largest...
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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. The battle occurred on September...
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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...
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Heritage Foundation at the outdoor Pioneer Amphitheater in Palo Duro Canyon outside of Canyon, Texas. The show is performed every Tuesday through Sunday...
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Red River War (section Battle of Palo Duro Canyon)
winter food supply, in upper Palo Duro Canyon. At dawn on September 28, Mackenzie's troops attacked down a steep canyon wall. The Native Americans were...
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Bureau, Canyon has a total area of 4.9 square miles (13 km2), all land. The city itself lies in a valley that eventually becomes Palo Duro Canyon to the...
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Georgia O'Keeffe made a set of paintings of Palo Duro Canyon while working as a department head and art instructor at West Texas State Normal College....
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Palo Duro Canyon State Park is the United States' second largest canyon system, after the Grand Canyon and is located south of Amarillo. The canyon is...
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Canyon, Indiana Millcreek Canyon, Utah New River Gorge, West Virginia Ninemile Canyon, Utah Ogden Canyon, Utah Oneonta Gorge, Oregon Palo Duro Canyon...
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school year, it has 2,075 students. The school was named after Palo Duro Canyon, a canyon system in the Texas Panhandle. Classified as a 5A school by the...
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several canyons that have been cut by rivers into the east face of the Llano Estacado, including Yellow House Canyon, Tule Canyon, and Palo Duro Canyon. The...
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long, formed at the confluence of Palo Duro Creek and Tierra Blanca Creek, about 1.8 mi (2.9 km) northeast of Canyon in Randall County, Texas, and flowing...
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the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon. On September 28, 1874, Mackenzie and his Tonkawa scouts razed the Comanche village at Palo Duro Canyon and killed nearly...
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the Texas Panhandle," according to author Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall. Palo Duro Canyon Canyon with Crows, 1917, watercolor and graphite on paper, Georgia O'Keeffe...
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The JA Ranch is a historic cattle ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon in Armstrong County, Texas. Founded in 1876 by Charles Goodnight and John George Adair...
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the Red River War, routing a combined Indian force at the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon far to the north from his headquarters at Fort Concho in San Angelo...
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September 27, 1874, near Palo Duro Canyon, a tributary of the Red River, Payne participated in the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon. Payne "[r]endered invaluable...
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battles of the war were fought in Texas: the Siege of Fort Texas, Battle of Palo Alto and Battle of Resaca de la Palma. After these decisive victories, the...
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Blanco Ogallala Aquifer Palo Duro Canyon Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River Salt Fork Brazos River Settles Hotel Yellow House Canyon Cummins, W.F., 1892. Report...
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H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Palmetto State Park Palo Duro Canyon State Park Palo Pinto Mountains State Park - under development Pedernales Falls...
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was to become the first Texas Panhandle ranch, the JA Ranch, in the Palo Duro Canyon. By 1885, the ranch covered 1,325,000 acres and held 100,000 head of...
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the level terrain gives way to Palo Duro Canyon, the second-largest canyon in the United States. This colorful canyon was carved by the Prairie Dog Town...
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headwaters in Eastern New Mexico to its confluence with Palo Duro Creek at the head of Palo Duro Canyon. The creek's water levels are variable, and it is not...
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Cejita de Los Comancheros in present-day Harding County and in the Palo Duro Canyon area of Texas near Quitaque in present-day Briscoe County. When the...
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population known as the Palo Duro mouse (Peromyscus truei comanche) that occupies an area in the vicinity of Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle....
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creating arroyos and highly diverse terrain, including the large Palo Duro Canyon southeast of Amarillo, Texas. One will notice the change in elevation...
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where their characteristic red beds are spectacularly exposed in Palo Duro Canyon. The strata are also oil-rich where buried in west Texas, such as in...
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Llano Estacado in eastern New Mexico and found shelter in Tule Canyon and Palo Duro Canyon in northwestern Texas. They were the only band that never signed...
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Margaret Pease Harper (category People from Canyon, Texas)
its creation and the Pioneer Amphitheater where it is performed in Palo Duro Canyon. Harper was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on July 22, 1911. Her father...
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North Canadian River). It turns and flows southeast through Palo Duro Canyon in Palo Duro Canyon State Park at an elevation of 3,440 feet (1,050 m), and past...
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