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The Llano Estacado (Spanish: [ˈʝano estaˈkaðo]), sometimes translated into English as the Staked Plains, [2] is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.
Shaded relief image of the Llano Estacado, the escarpments marking the northern, eastern, and southern edges of the Llano are clearly visible. The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877, also known as the Staked Plains Horror, occurred when a combined force of Buffalo Soldier troops of the United States Army 10th Cavalry and local buffalo hunters wandered for five days in the Llano Estacado region of ...
Coronado and his army found a Querecho settlement of about 200 houses on the Llano Estacado, of Staked Plains, of the Texas Panhandle and adjacent New Mexico. On the Llano they also saw vast herds of buffalo or bison. According to members of Coronado’s expedition: [The Querechos lived] in tents made of the tanned skins of the cows (bison).
Northwest escarpment of the Llano Estacado overlooking Alamogordo Valley of Quay and Guadalupe Counties, New Mexico.. The Caprock Escarpment is a term used in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico to describe the geographical transition point between the level High Plains of the Llano Estacado and the surrounding rolling terrain.
The Buffalo Hunters' War, or the Staked Plains War, occurred in 1877. Approximately 170 Comanche warriors and their families led by Quohadi chief Black Horse or Tu-ukumah (unknown–ca. 1900) left the Indian Territory in December, 1876, for the Llano Estacado of Texas .
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The Buffalo Soldier tragedy of 1877 also known as the "Staked Plains Horror" occurred when a combined force of Buffalo Soldier troops of the 10th and local buffalo hunters wandered for days in the dry Llano Estacado region of north-west Texas and eastern New Mexico during July of a drought year.
Armando Navarro Jr., 50, is the ex-boyfriend of Jodie Hopcus, who was killed alongside her mother, Sherri Duncan, and her daughter, Hailey Hopcus