Adobe Walls

Adobe Walls was a frontier trading post on the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle, today a remote and largely unmarked site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was the scene of two significant frontier conflicts: in 1864 Kit Carson led U.S. forces against Kiowa and Comanche warriors in the First Battle of Adobe Walls, and in 1874 roughly 28 buffalo hunters repelled an attack by several hundred Plains Indian warriors in the Second Battle — an engagement that helped trigger the Red River War. The original adobe structures have long since crumbled back into the prairie; a modest roadside monument near Stinnett, Texas marks the site today. It draws visitors with a specific interest in the Indian Wars and the violent closing of the American frontier.