From The Windows To The Adobe Walls

You've all heard it mentioned in Lonesome Dove, but how many of you know why Adobe Walls was historically significant? Founded by Ceran St. Vrain and William Bent in 1848, Adobe Walls was little more than a remote trading post on the brutally desolate Llano Estacado, but as many as a hundred Comanche, Kiowa and Arapahoe warriors died trying to expel the white settlers from it, and untold fortunes were lost by said white men trying to make their riches. In short, it seems like a place that was never meant to be. Today its nothing more than three graves and a historical marker on a 5 acre plot. This is the story behind the fabled Adobe Walls.