Bents Creek (About 15 Miles East) 

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Marker Text: ​Named for Charles (1799-1847) and William Bent (1809-1869), famed for frontier trading with mountain men and "wild" Indians. As early as 1835 they came from their headquarters near present La Junta, Colorado, to trade with the Kiowas and Comanches along the Canadian River, in this vicinity. They built at least three posts along the river and tributary creeks; most permanent post was Fort Adobe, built 1843-1844. In the ruins of this fort (northeast of here) Kit Carson fought his last big Indian battle (1854), and buffalo hunters and Indians fought the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874. (1971)

Marker No: 375

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 35.744118, -101.417717

Location: ​from Borger take SH 136 north about 6 miles