Copper Breaks State Park
© 2010
H. HUMPHRIES
Big Pond ...
Sacred Comanche Site
© 2010
H. HUMPHRIES
© 2010
H. HUMPHRIES
David Turner
Park
Superintendent
© 2010
H. HUMPHRIES
More information about Copper Breaks State Park is posted on the website of the Texas Department of Parks & Wildlife
Park Ranger
Carl Hopper and Juanita Pahdahpony, academic dean of Comanche Nation College, together hold up for display
the Copper Breaks buffalo hide.
Art, artifacts and replicas of artifacts tell the much of the story of the early history of the buffalo-rich area, also rich in copper -- hence the name.
Copper Breaks State Park is located on State Hwy. 6, nine miles north of Crowell and 12 miles south of Quanah. The Pease River, known to the Comanche as the River of Cedars, forms the south border of the park. Juniper cedar that grows at the park is used by the Comanche in sacred ceremonies.
Comanche and Kiowa once roamed the rugged land along the Pease River
between Quanah and Crowell. Copper Breaks State Park offers visitors an experience that puts them in touch with both the land itself and the history of cultures that have claimed it as their own, from indigenous tribes of nomadic hunters to Anglo settlers who broke the land.
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