The photo of a valuable deerskin painting of the Battle of Adobe Walls is spread over two pages of the The Great Chiefs, a beautiful new book in the Time-Life series on the Old West.

The painting of the 1874 battle is the work of a Comanche named Yokesuite and is owned by historian Arthur Lawrence of Lawton.  The work commemorates the abortive assault of several hundred Indians on about 28 buffalo hunters and merchants at the tiny Adobe Walls settlement in the Texas Panhandle on June 27, 1874.

Quanah Parker and the Comanche medicine man Is-a-tai led the Indians.  Only three whites were killed, and at least 13 Indians died against the buffalo hunters who were armed with long-range Sharps rifles.

Thanks to the historical curiosity and interest of Authur Lawrence and his father, the Comanche version of the battle has been preserved in the Adobe Walls painting.  Authur's father, the late A. D. Lawrence, 

  

Arthur Lawrence and his Original Comanche 
Painting on Deerskin of Battle of Adobe Walls

was a licensed Indian trader at the Fort Sill Indian sub-agency, and operated the original Red Store which had been established in 1886 and which stood southeast of the present intersection of Rogers Lane and U.S. 277. 

The original store was torn down.  The Red Store at Eagle Park in Cache is an exact replica. The Lawrence business was moved to Second and C.  There, it still operated as The Original Red Store, and the Lawrences still had dealings with many Indians.