Buffalo Gap
abilenet December 23rd, 2006
In this episode, we will talk about Buffalo Gap, the earliest town established in Taylor County. Take a walk through Buffalo Gap and you will see one of the most beautiful towns in West Texas. The town is shaded by groves of towering live oak trees and sits in a gap between two mesas in the Callahan Divide, which is a line of hills and mesas that separates the Brazos River basin to the north from the Concho River basin to the south. For many years in the Spring and Fall, this gap was a favorite route for buffalo herds seeking water from Elm Creek as they traveled back and forth to the high plains. This gap, a few miles south of present-day Abilene, soon became a favored camping place for native peoples as they tracked and hunted the great herds of buffalo on their north-south journey through the gap.Credits:Frazier, Donald S, Robert F. Pace and Robert P. Wettemann, Jr. The Texas You Expect: The Story of Buffalo Gap Historic Village. State House Press, 2006.Zachry, Juanita Daniel. Abilene The Key City. Windsor Publications, Inc. Northridge, CA, 1986.
