Sierra Diablo
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The Sierra Diablo is a small mountain range in the US state of Texas, extending north and south along the border between Hudspeth and Culberson counties. It is in the Chihuahuan Desert, and is near Va
Sierra Diablo range with eponymous ranch marker in the foreground
The Battle of the Diablo Mountains was an October 1854 engagement between the U.S. Army and the Lipan Apache. A small force of Mounted Rifles attacked a much larger force of Lipan Apaches at the base
Sierra Diablo
…and beryllium are present in small amounts. Groundwater is scarce. Indigenous Lipan Apache people of the region were driven away and killed in the Battle of the Diablo Mountains in 1854 under the command of John George Walker. A last conflict of the Texas–Indian wars took place at Sierra Diablo in 1880, with Apache under the…
A Lipan Apache, circa 1857