Ragtown to Riches: Amarillo reigns as the Queen City of the Texas Panhandle

Ranald Slidell MacKenzie

(True West) In the morning of Sept. 28, 1874, Colonel Ranald Mackenzie and his Fourth Cavalry swept into Palo Duro Canyon. The soldiers burned Indian camps, destroyed food supplies and—most importantly—captured and killed more than 1,100 horses, effectively putting an end to the Red River War. Continued