Editing Hansford County, Texas (section)

===Native Americans===

<!-- wrong county Artifacts of the Antelope Creek Indian culture abound along the [[Canadian River]] valley in Hutchinson County. Archaeologists have found {{convert|1300|acre|km2}} of Alibates flint in the area that was used as a quarry for shaping flint tools. Nomadic [[Plains Apache]] also camped in this area, as did [[Comanche]], [[Arapaho]], [[Kiowa]], and [[Cheyenne]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kirkwood|first=Scott|title=Rock of Ages |journal=National Parks Magazine|year=2006|volume=Fall}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Alibates Flint Quarry|url=http://www.nps.gov/alfl/index.htm|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=December 14, 2010}}</ref>
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In 1873, [[England|English]] brothers James Hamilton Cator and Arthur J. L. (Bob) Cator were sent by their father, British naval officer Captain John Bertie Cator, to [[Kansas]] in search of financial opportunity. The brothers soon found their true calling as [[Buffalo Hunters' War|buffalo hunters]] and established an outpost along the North Palo Duro Creek. They named this camp Zulu, and it soon became known as Zulu Stockade.<ref>{{cite web|last=Anderson|first=H. Allen|title=James Hamilton Cator|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fca95|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=December 14, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Zulu|url=http://www.spearman.org/zulu.html|publisher=Spearman Chamber of Commerce|access-date=December 14, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Zulu, Texas|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasPanhandleTowns/Zulu-Texas.htm|work=Texas Escapes|publisher=Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=December 14, 2010}}</ref>

The depletion of the buffalo herds led in part to the ongoing conflict between Indians and settlers.
The [[Second Battle of Adobe Walls]] took place in neighboring [[Hutchinson County, Texas|Hutchinson County]] in 1874 and led to the Red River War of 1874–1875. A group of buffalo hunters attempted a revitalization of Fort Adobe. The Comanches, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Kiowa saw the fort and the decimation of the buffalo herd as threats to their existence. Comanche [[medicine man]] [[Isa-tai]] prophesied a victory and immunity to the white man's bullets in battle.  [[Quanah Parker]] lead several hundred in a raid on the fort. The buffalo hunters were able to force the Indians into retreat.<ref>{{cite book|last=Keenan|first=Jerry|title=Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars 1492-1890|year=1999|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-0-393-31915-6|pages=2, 3}}</ref> The [[Red River War]] of 1874-1875 was a [[United States Army]] campaign to force the removal of Indians in Texas and their relocation to reservations, to open the region to white settlers.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Red River War of 1874|url=http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/redriver/|work=Texas Beyond History|publisher=UT-Austin|access-date=December 14, 2010}}</ref>