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"Maybe 100, 120 years ago, you could hear that very sound echoing across the hills of this canyon," he said.
Maybe. But on a day in March 1877, you most assuredly would have heard gunfire between warring Comanche Indians and buffalo hunters in one of the last skirmishes on the South Plains. The two sides battled among Comanche camps in the canyon, which today is filled with water and part of the Canyon Lake System.
The city has several markers along the park road commemorating the fight. Today, there's also Dixon's sculpture, meant to honor the contributions of American Indians to Lubbock. November is Native American Heritage Month.
Unveiled Wednesday,(2008) "The Harvest" depicts an American Indian woman holding up a piece of corn and thanking God for the crop, said Dixon, who was assisted in the bronze work by Lubbock artist Kyle Pettit.
The woman, sitting on a rock with her bare feet crossed below her, was meant to sit in the stream that runs through the park, Dixon said. But the artist said he had trouble mounting it in the water. So instead, she sits on a base built by the city's Parks and Recreation Department, off 19th Street and Canyon Lake Drive.
Dixon has sculpted numerous historical figures, including a sculpture of Eugene Bullard, the first black combat aviator during World War I. It is displayed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. He also created a statue of the late astronaut Willie McCool, a Coronado High School graduate, in Henry Huneke Park.
"It's an honor to be recognized by your city," Dixon said.
His latest work is a gift celebrating the city's centennial from Civic Lubbock Inc. It was also made possible by a grant from the CH Foundation and the Lubbock Area Foundation - Sybil B. Harrington Endowment for the Arts.
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