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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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the railhead at Dodge City, Kansas, and the timbers were cut from Palo Duro Canyon and along the Canadian River Valley. A herd of 12,000 head of cattle...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Briscoe County, Texas (section Tule Canyon)
County Llano Estacado Duffy's Peak Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway Palo Duro Canyon Yellow House Canyon "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Briscoe County...
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Rose Publishing Company, 1989), pp. 41–44 Anderson, H. Allen (1976). "Palo Duro Canyon State Scenic Park". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved June...
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