Special program planned at park

Fort Griffin State Historic Site will conduct a program on the Battle of Blanco Canyon on Saturday, March. 9.

Todd Smith, chief investigator of the Blanco Canyon battle site, will speak at 10:00 a.m. and again at 2:00 p.m.

The battle, which took place on October 10, 1871 in what is now Crosby County, was the main action in Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie's initial campaign against the Comanches in West Tex…