Indian uprisings on the Texas plains culminated in 1864 at the First Battle of Adobe Walls. Kit Carson’s Union troops stationed in New Mexico rode east, attempting to quell the unrest.

The PPHM exhibit brings regional, national and possibly even international attention to the 150th anniversary of the second Battle of Adobe Walls and places the battle in its countrywide context.

In June of 1924, a six-acre site was given to the Panhandle Plains Historical Society commemorating that month the 50th anniversary of the second battle of the Adobe Walls. In 1941 a monument ...