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Buffalo Wallow Fight Remembered On Fifty-First Anniversary
A Sanborn County history recounts the 1874 Buffalo Wallow battle in Hemphill County between Kiowa and Comanche war bands and a small group of six white men led by scouts Amos Chapman and William Dixon. Dixon narrates the daring escape, wallow defense, and night of peril before relief and rescue by Major Price’s escort.
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Fort Supply
Indian Territory
Alamo
Texas
William Dixon
Nelson A. Miles
McClellan Creek
Panhandle
Amos Chapman
Z. T. Woodall
Peter Rath
John Harrington
George W. Smith
Sixth Cavalry
Miles
Washita
George Smith
Smith
Chapman
Adobe Walls
Rath
Buffalo Wallow
Major Price
W. M. Right
Hemphill County