The Corral, Volume 8, Number 7, April, 1915 Page: 13
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THE CORRAL
While I have never been below this point, those who
have say that it becomes more interesting for the reason
that one finds so many relics of Indian days, such as arrow
heads, battle axes and tepee poles. Here it was in a branch
canyon near Silverton that Gen. McKenzie crowded the
Comanches and made such slaughter of the helpless reds.
Here it was too, that on the capture of five hundred head
of horses he had them all killed, fearing that they would
again become the property of marauding Indian bands if
turned loose.
The mouth of the Palo Duro canyon is below the little
town of Goodnight in or near the ranch of Col. Goodnight.
Here it spreads out into a broad plain and the bluffs are
merged into the sand hills of the Clarendon country.
The geological formation of the canyon is one of in-
terest. Taking for granted that the plains were once the
bed of a fresh water lake we are forced to admit its for-
mation by erosion. The work of erosion, too, is of recent
date and is at present going on very rapidly. Seeing on
each side hundreds of feet of sandstone we are made to
wonder at it. While I was talking with a man who had
lived in the Panhandle country for forty years he made
the statement that in his opinion when the sandstone was
first uncovered by the water it was not stone, but pure
sand. Later while riding up the Ft. Worth and Denver I
was convinced of the correctness of his opinion by seeing
in the Clarendon country a vast strip of sand hills conform-
ing in strata to that of the sand stone in the canyon. This
could easily be worn away by erosion.
These canyons have been visited by students of Eastern
Universities in their study of geology. Morris Sheppard,
in his campaign for the U. S. senate in 1912, pledged him-
self to support a measure in congress providing for the13
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Simmons College. The Corral, Volume 8, Number 7, April, 1915, periodical, April 1915; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth109395/m1/15/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.