Back in the summer 1874, the Comanche and their allies went on the offense.

Turns out a bunch of uninvited buffalo hunters were invading their territory, and, well,

they didn't much appreciate that.

This turn of events would lead to the second battle of Dobie Walls and the Red River War,

a conflict that saw Colonel Renal McKinsey in the U.S. Army criss-crossing the Yano Estacado in order to finally defeat the Comanchee for good.

And they were successful, mostly due to McKinsey striking at their winter camp, destroying their lodges, along with their supply of winter food, and killing over 1,500 head ofanchee ponies. Without provisions or shelter for the

winter, and especially without their lifeblood, the horses, these lords of the southern plains were

effectively defeated. By June of 1875, Quana Parker and the last of the holdout surrendered at

Fort Sill, and that was it. The Comanche were on

the reservation, the Buffalo were mostly gone, and all that prime real estate was free for the

taken. While the legendary Charles Goodnight may have been one of the first to run cattle near the

Palo Duro Canyon, other folks soon began putting down route some 90-odd miles to the northwest at a place

called Tuscosa. First, just a small collection of New Mexican sheep herders weren't long before

Tuscosa began filling up with Texas cattlemen and ranchers hoping to claim their piece of all that

wide open land. And they did so at breakneck speed, turning the tiny sheep town into the cowboy capital

of the plains, and an economic rival to Dodge City nearly overnight. Massive ranches like the

L.S., the LX, the frying pan, and even the storied XIT, which is still around today, by the way,

all began running cows in the area as

Tescosa became the hub of all cattle shipping and supplying in the Texas Panhandle.

That being the case, Teskosa was about as wild of a town as you could hope to find back in

its heyday, especially lower Tuskosa, which soon came to be called Hogtown.

That's where you could find all the brothels and the cheaper, seetier saloons. You may remember from the recent series on Billy the Kid about how the regulators called Teskosa home after the Lincoln County War. Billy the Kid, Doc Skirlock, and Dave Roodabal all walked the Cowtown's dusty streets, as did other legendary Old West figures like

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