Medicine Mounds

{{Short description|Group of hills in Texas, US}}

{{Infobox hill

| name = Medicine Mounds

| coordinates = {{Coord|34.1875817|-99.6237023}}

| map = Texas

| elevation_m = 522

| elevation_ft = 1713

| subdivision1_type = Country

| subdivision1 = United States

| subdivision2_type = State

| subdivision2 = Texas

| subdivision3_type = County

| subdivision3 = Hardeman

| etymology = The Comanche placed medicinal plants at the peaks as offerings to spirits living at the peaks.

}}

The Medicine Mounds are a group of four hills, located in Hardeman County, Texas, United States. The four hills are Big Mound ({{Convert|1713|ft|m}}), Cedar Mound ({{Convert|1650|ft|m}}), Third Mound ({{Convert|1610|ft|m}}) and Little Mound ({{Convert|1580|ft|m}}).{{Cite web |title=Geographic Names Information System |url=https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/1362567 |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=edits.nationalmap.gov}} The Comanche believed spirits lived on the peaks, and placed medicinal plants at the peaks as offerings.{{Cite book |last1=Wallace |first1=Ernest |author-link=Ernest Wallace |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u21D6CakZHIC |title=The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains |last2=Hoebel |first2=Edward Adamson |author-link2=E. Adamson Hoebel |date=1986 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-2040-9 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Medicine Mounds |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/medicine-mounds |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}

The Medicine Mounds are the namesake for Medicine Mound, Texas.