Figures— Page
1. Aerial View of Palo Duro Canyon Frontispiece
2. Place map of Palo Duro Canyon 4-5
3. Indian carving on sandstone boulder 6
4. War dress of Comanche Chief Quanah Parker 7
5. Generalized geologic map of the Texas Panhandle 9
6. Geologic time scale 11
7. Generalized geologic map of Palo Duro Canyon State Park 14-15
8. Joints and gypsum veins in Quartermaster Formation 17
9. Syncline in Quartermaster red beds 18
10. Reduction halos in Quartermaster shale 20
11. Cross-bedded boulder of Trujillo sandstone 20
12. Panoramic view of canyon showing major rock units exposed in
canyon 21
13. Phytosaur skull 22
14. Skeleton of _Buettneria_ 24
15. Mortar hole made by Indians 25
16. Rock pedestal near the Lighthouse 25
17. Outcrop of Ogallala caliche 26
18. Life-sized model of shovel-jawed mastodon 27
19. Fossilized carapaces of Pliocene tortoises 27
20. Talus slopes and “hoodoo” on Capitol Peak 31
21. Entrance to Palo Duro Canyon State Park 34
22. Coronado Lodge 34
23. Pioneer Amphitheatre 35
24. Train on Sad Monkey Railroad track 36
25. South face of Triassic Peak 36
26. Spanish Skirts 37
27. Catarina Cave 38
28. Santana’s Face 38
29. Picnic area at first water crossing 39
30. Colonel Charles Goodnight’s Dugout 40
31. The Lighthouse 41
32. Capitol Peak 42
33. Fortress Cliff 42
34. The Rock Garden 43
35. The Devil’s Slide 44
36. Campsite in south end of park 44
37. Entrance to Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum 45
[Illustration: Fig. 1. Aerial view of Palo Duro Canyon showing
location of major points of interest: (1) Coronado Lodge; (2)
Triassic Peak; (3) Timber Mesa; (4) Capitol Peak; (5) Fortress
Cliff; (6) Prairie Dog Town Fork of Red River; (7) The Turnaround
(termination of Park Road 5). (Courtesy of Charles A. Wolfin;
photograph by W. A. Hester.)]