Yellowhouse Canyon

Historical marker location:

Lubbock, Texas

( Mackenzie Park, Park Road 18 (Mackenzie Park Road), 0.2 mi NW of US 82 (park south entrance))

Marker installed: 1936

Known to Spanish explorers of the 17th and 18th centuries - Described by Albert Pike who visited the region in 1832 - The last battle in Lubbock County between White buffalo hunters and the red men who had called the plains their own occurred on this site in 1877.