A LOOK BACK AT HUTCHINSON COUNTY HISTORY
The Antelope Creek Culture
The Antelope Creek Phase was an American Indian culture in the Texas Panhandle
and nearby Oklahoma dating from 1200 to 1450 AD. The Antelope Creek people lived
in the Canadian River valley near Borger, Texas and the Buried City complex near
Perryton, Texas. The Antelope Creek People were bison hunters, maize farmers, and
foragers. They built large stone multi-family dwellings that are unique on the Great
Plains. Their culture blended Southwestern Pueblo and Great Plains characteristics.
The Antelope Creek settlements were abandoned between 1450 and 1500. When
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado passed through the Texas panhandle in 1541 he
met only nomadic buffalo-hunting Indians he called Querechos.
The most accepted theories for the disappearance of the Antelope Creek people is
that either they exhausted their resources over time and were forced to resettle
elsewhere or that drought made agriculture increasingly difficult in the Panhandle
and the people moved to better agricultural lands.
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