ROARING SPRING

From prehistoric days a favorite

Indian camp ground. The main

camp of the Comanche Indians in

December, 1860 when Cynthia Ann

Parker was recaptured from them

near Medicine Mound in Foard

County. Famed for the purity of

its water. Tradition tells of

corn ground in the holes in the

sand stones north of this site.

MONUMENT

ERECTED

1936

BY THE

STATE

OF

TEXAS

MONUMENT

TEXT

Mat Walker, long-time wagon boss for the Matador’s, takes time out to wash his saddle blanket in the Matador’s famous Roaring Springs. Matador Ranch, Texas. (Erwin E. Smith Collection, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas)

Roaring Spring

is sometimes also called Roaring Springs, as in the caption below, and the Matador Ranch is commonly called The Matador’s.

The photo is from 1907.

Roaring Spring, Texas

ROARING SPRING

AS IT APPEARS

TODAY