Yellow House Canyon Battle Trade Silver — Lubbock County

The Battle of Yellow House Canyon on March 18, 1877, was the last major Indian fight in the Panhandle–South Plains. Quanah Parker's warriors and Apaches clashed with buffalo hunters and Texas Rangers near the canyon's springs — the same waterhole where George Singer later built his store. Frontier cache folklore often places trade goods and specie hurriedly buried when raiding parties retreated from pursuing Rangers. Yellow House Canyon drains the Llano Estacado caprock near present Lubbock. Related entries in the Abilene batch document Double Mountains and Salt Fork variants northwest of Lubbock. Coordinates approximate Yellow House Canyon in Lubbock County.