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SAVE MACKENZIE PARK

The Battle of Yellow House Canyon. The Battle of Yellow House Canyon is a battle of the      Comanche and Apache tribes fighting English Bison hunters. The Battle took place at present  day Mackenzie Park located at Lubbock, TX 33.5995° N, 101.8365° W. This Battle was set up    by Jim White and his men that were going to take down Black Horse and his men.

Black Horse was given a permit through the Indian Agent at Fort Sill. He planned to kill every Buffalo Hunter he saw. He spotted a buffalo hunter named Marshall Sewell. With a group of skinners named, Alexander Gilbert, Louis Keyes, and Joe Jackson. When Sewell spotted a group of Buffalo, he pulled out his sharp rifle and killed them until he ran out of ammunition. When he was going to help skin them he was ambushed and got killed and scalped The three skinners watched this happen and went back to rath city ot report this. Once they reported the issue the rath city govement sent out forty men to deal with the indians that killed them.