Post, Texas

Cutting across Garza County is

the eastern edge of the High Plains escarpment called the Caprock, a striking geographical feature

followed by the Comanche in their treks across the Comancheria. They traveled it north toward tallgrass prairie buffalo grasslands and south toward Mexico.

Where cattle now graze and crops grow in fields in Garza County, buffalo once roamed. The wandering herds sustained the Comanche, providing both a source of food and also hides and other materials useful to the nomadic tribe. The Comanche were dismayed to see the buffalo herds decimated by hunters who killed the beasts solely for their hides.

A giant Quanah Parker Trail arrow stands on a

scenic ridge east of Post at Terrace Cemetery.

At far right is arrow sculptor Charles Smith. 

Another arrow stands on the grounds of the museum in Post. 

The killing and scalping of buffalo hunter Marshall Sewell in February 1877 by Quahadi Comanche Black Horse -- who had watched Sewell kill buffalo with his Sharps rifle -- precipitated the Staked Plains War, also called the Hunters’ War. The brief war culminated with the Battle of Yellow House Canyon on March 18, 1877 near present-day Lubbock. Sewell and his skinners had been camped and hunting in present-day Garza County, west of present-day Post, when Sewell and Black Horse clashed over the slaughter of the buffalo.

The Battle of Yellow House Canyon ended the last Indian uprising on the Texas High Plains.