The Buffalo wallow fight of 1874

.The Buffalo Wallow Fight was one of the most unusual engagements in the Red River War. On September 10, 1874, Col. Nelson A. Miles, whose command was running short of rations, sent two scouts, Billy Dixon and Amos Chapman, and four enlisted men, Sgt. Z. T. Woodhall and privates Peter Rath, John Harrington, and George W. Smith, from his camp on McClellan Creek with dispatches concerning the delay of Capt. Wyllys Lyman's supply train, then under siege by Indians on the upper Washita River. The six-man contingent set out on the trail to Camp Supply in Indian Territory. On the morning of September 12, as they approached the divide between Gageby Creek and the Washita River in Hemphill County, they suddenly found themselves surrounded by about 125 Comanche and Kiowa warriors.
listen to this exciting tale of their survival

[@jamesivie5717]

These are the stories that stir the soul. Thank you.

[@anthonymartinez4462]

Billy Dixon I believe fought in the Adobe Walls fight against the Comanche he shot a medicine man from almost a mile away! So the description of the weather in the Texas Panhandle is September is so accurate I know cause I live in this area!!!

[@gerardhogan3]

Greetings from Australia. Bloody hell they were hard men. How crap was Congress taking the medals off the lads. Good on the bloke who told them to stick up their arse. I would of as well. Lest We Forget those brave boys just doing thier duty.

[@billm2078]

One heck of a story.

[@gypsyboomer]

I visited Billy Dixons' grave, just outside Stinnett, Tx in Apr 23. He is buried there to be remembered for the Adobe Walls fight, but should be remembered as one of the real hero's of the West.

[@franksullivan1873]

Love the Cicadas in the background.

[@TigerPat_9180]

Really Appreciate Your Video , Thanks ! 🐯🤠

[@butchbinion1560]

Thanks, enjoyed your video. ✌🏻👊🏼

[@rt3box6tx74]

Before we began minimum till farming in the late 1990s we could still easily see those buffalo wallers even though they'd been plowed in and floated full of dirt since our parents began row-irrigation in the late 1950s and 60s.

[@superg3962]

Love your channel- you got a great voice/cadence- thanks for putting these together for us western history nuts!

[@J.Walker88]

Always enjoy and appreciate your work. Keep it up.

[@user-te4kk2gy1o]

Fighting seems to be a big thing back in the day.

[@doc693]

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[@davidjackson2690]

Loved it.

[@sheepdip6452]

Now, that buffalo wallow battleground is probably the site of a Dollar General parking lot and nobody these days has any idea about the drama that happened there ... and if you told them they probably would not care, blinded by their quest for Diet Coke and cheap plastic toys.

[@wildcolonialman]

Remarkable.

[@jillatherton4660]

👍

[@kyleolsen6938]

He made a great shot at adobe walls

[@Simpleman88]

Great

[@anthonyiocca5683]

Brutal story, lives saved by divine intervention.