Comanche Warrior Yellow Fish!


Veteran of the famous Adobe Walls battle of June 1874.

Way up in the Pan Handle of Texas, 150 miles south of Dodge City, Kansas.

World War II was ranging and it was only six weeks before Pearl Harbor.

Yet this Comanche warrior was still very much around...

The Indians had waited patiently for their day to come, when they could dedicate a monument to their own war dead...


Source: Adobe Walls by T. Lindsay Baker and Billy R. Harrison. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1986.

Page 120:

"On Sunday October 19, 1941, the Indians drove from Borger to Adobe Walls, and there performed their rites, before four thousand to five thousand whites, who watched in the distance.

"After preliminary dances, Yellowfish, a Comanche who had fought the buffalo hunters at the site, directed the dedication of the Indian monument.

"With a Cheyenne chief on one side, and a Kiowa on the other, he read from the marker the names of the braves who had fallen before the guns of the whites in their effort to drive the hide men from their hunting grounds.

"A reporter noticed that tears rolled down the weather - beaten cheeks of the older Indians.

"The service ended with a prayer and further dances to the pounding of tribal drums..."

What a fitting way to draw that part of Western Frontier History to it's final close! :)