1877 war between buffalo hunters and the Comanche
The Buffalo Hunters' War , or the Staked Plains War , occurred in 1877. Approximately 170 Comanche warriors and their families led by Quohadi chief Black Horse or Tu-ukumah (unknown–ca. 1900) left the Indian Territory in December, 1876, for the Llano Estacado of Texas . In February, 1877, they, and their Apache allies, began attacking buffalo hunters ' camps in the Red River country of the Texas Panhandle , killing or wounding several. They also stole horses from the camp of Pat Garrett .[citation needed
Forty-five hunters, led by Hank Campbell , Jim Smith, and Joe Freed, and guided by Jose Tafoya , left Rath City , a trading post on the Double Mountain Fork Brazos River . Smoky Hill Thompson remained behind to lead the defense of the trading post.[citation needed
The party trailed the natives to their camp in Thompson's Canyon, now known as Yellow House Canyon in present-day Lubbock, Texas , where they attacked on March 18. The hunters were repulsed and the natives escaped, including white captive Herman 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
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