on 27 june 1874, isa-tai and comanche chief quanah parker led about 250 warriors in an attack on a small outpost of buffalo hunters in the texas panhandle called adobe walls. the encampment consisted of just a few buildings and was occupied by only 28 men and one woman. though a few whites were killed in the opening moments of the second battle of adobe walls (the first had been in 1864), the majority was able to barricade themselves indoors and hold off the attack. using large-caliber buffalo guns, the hunters could fire on the warriors from much greater range than the indians had expected, and the attack failed.