tage of loss when considering the great difficnlty and 

 dangers to 1)e encountered in handling a large herd of 

 semi-wild buffalo. 



During the past year the Society has received a 

 number of books, photographs and a valuable Indian 

 buffalo lance, donated to the Society hy Col. Charles 

 Goodnight of Goodnight, Texas. This lance was for- 

 merly the property of the noted Comanche Chief Quana 

 Parker, who used it not only for killing l)uff'alo l)ut also 

 in murdering human beings. Colonel Goodnight states 

 that he was well acquainted with Quana Parker, who in 

 1877 left the Reservation near Fort Sill, Indian Terri- 

 tory, and made a break with three hundred of his tribe 

 for their former home in western Texas. They camped 

 in the Palo Diu-o Canyon, near Colonel Goodnight 's 

 ranch, and during that time Chief Quana related the 

 history of the lance to Colonel Goodnight. Among other 

 things, he stated that it was with this lance that he killed 

 the two men who were slee])ing in the wagon the morn- 

 ing of the famous tight at Adobe Wall«. A good account 

 of this fight, which occurred between tlie Comanches 

 and a party of white men — 1)uffalo hunters — is fomid 

 in the "Life of Billv Dixon of Adolie Walls," who was 

 one of the i)artv of l)uff'alo hunters. Dixon is the man 

 who shot Chief Quana Parker in that fight, l)ut the l)ul- 

 let was turned hy striking the Chief's large ])uffalo 

 powder horn. 



MARTIN S. GARRETSOX, 



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