ADOBE WALLS

The History and Archeology of the 1874 Trading Post

by

T. Lindsay Baker and Billy R. Harrison

Foreword by B. Byron Price 

HARDCOVER EDITION - 108 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS

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In this book is the true historical account of how Billy Dixon's famed "long shot" with a Sharp's big fifty won the Battle of Adobe Walls.

". . . Billy Dixon clambered over the pile, with .50-caliber Sharps rifle in hand to take a look outside. In an area about eight hundred yards away at the base of a line of low hills where the grass was tall, he could see something crawling. Leveling his rifle, he carefully took aim and shot.

The recoil of his weapon was so great that the hunter tumbled down from his perch and atop a pile of sacks and goods, knocking down a washtub and some eating utensils. Johnson, who was there at the time, remembered that, 'we thought him dead, but he was all right and soon got back to the sacks and finished his shooting.'"---from the book

In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one woman set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. They intended to establish a trading post to serve the hunters, or "hide men," and at a place called Adobe Walls they dug blocks from the sod and built their center of operations.

After only a few months, angry members of several Plains Indian tribes, whose survival depended on the rapidly shrinking bison herd, attacked the post. Adobe Walls tells this story, from the origins of the post through the battle---and Billy Dixon's famous Sharps rifle shot---and beyond. The authors include intense shooting scenes, detailed descriptions of the weapons and strategies involved, and accounts from others who witnessed the battle.    

After the post was abandoned, the Indians burned it to erase all traces of the white man's presence. Nonetheless, tracings did remain, and in the ashes were buried minute details of the hide men's lives.

Adobe Walls relates the story of how a handful of Hide Hunters with buffalo rifles, when faced with unbelievable odds, survived.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1-The Hide Men Come to Adobe Walls

Chapter 2-Seeds of Unrest Flower into Violence

Chapter 3-The Battle of Adobe Walls

Chapter 4-Who Was Really There?

Chapter 5-Adobe Walls after the Fight

Chapter 6-Adobe Walls Since 1874

Chapter 7-The Setting

Chapter 8-Overview of the Site and Field Work

Chapter 9-Structures

Chapter 10-Building Furnishings

Chapter 11-Tools and Equipment

Chapter 12-Transportation

Chapter 13-Containers

Chapter 14-Personal Artifacts

Chapter 15-Unclassifiable, Geologic, and Zoological Artifacts

Chapter 16-Conclusion

Hardcover. Unabridged edition. 6x9. 430 pages. 108 black and white photos. BRAND NEW!

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