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Buffalo Hunter's War
Part of theTexas–Indian wars,Apache Wars
Black Horse with his wife and child atFort Marion,Florida.
Date 1876 – 1877 Location Texas,Oklahoma Result Buffalo hunters victory
Commanders and leaders
Hank Campbell - Buffalo hunters	Black Horse - Comanche

TheBuffalo Hunters' War, or theStaked Plains War, occurred in 1877. Approximately 170Comanche warriors and their families led by Quohadi chiefBlack Horse or Tu-ukumah (unknown–ca. 1900) left theIndian Territory in December, 1876, for theLlano Estacado ofTexas. In February, 1877, they, and theirApache allies, began attackingbuffalo hunters' camps in theRed River country of theTexas Panhandle, killing or wounding several. They also stole horses from the camp ofPat Garrett.^{[citation needed]}

Forty-five hunters, led byHank Campbell, Jim Smith, and Joe Freed, and guided byJose Tafoya, leftRath City, atrading post on theDouble Mountain Fork Brazos River. Smoky Hill Thompson remained behind to lead the defense of the trading post.^{[citation needed]}

The party trailed thenatives to their camp in Thompson's Canyon, now known asYellow House Canyon in present-dayLubbock, Texas, where theyattacked on March 18. The hunters were repulsed and the natives escaped, including white captiveHerman Lehmann, who was wounded in the battle.^{[citation needed]}

The hunters' casualties were four wounded and one later dying from wounds. It was later reported by the military that the natives suffered 35 dead and 22 wounded.^{[citation needed]}

• Buffalo Soldier tragedy of 1877

• Dictionary of American History byJames Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
• The Border and the Buffalo by John R. Cook, 1907, Citadel Press (1967)
• Black Horse from theHandbook of Texas Online
• Battle of Yellow House Canyon from theHandbook of Texas Online
• In 1877, Mackenzie Park was site of a deadly battle. Lubbock Online, Nov. 27, 2007

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