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ADOBE WALLS History Book~1874 Trading Post~Billy Dixon~SHARPS~New H/C Ed.

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    Description

    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
    ________________________________________________
    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.
    A
    dobe 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. 6x9. 430 pages. 108 black and white photos. BRAND NEW!
    PLEASE NOTE:
    THE
    PHOTO IN THIS AUCTION IS A STOCK PHOTO OF THE BOOK. YOUR BOOK IS BRAND NEW FROM THE PUBLISHER. IT IS NOT A SECOND, RETURNED BOOK, OR A REMAINDER COPY. IT HAS NEVER BEEN READ AND NEVER BEEN SHELVED.