Adobe Walls

Adobe Walls
Title Adobe Walls PDF eBook
Author T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher Texas A&M University Press
Pages 456
Release 1986-04-04
Genre History
ISBN 9781585441761

Download Adobe Walls Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south to follow the herds, they intended to establish a trading post to serve the hunter, or "hide men." At a place called Adobe Walls they dug blocks from the sod and built their center of operations After operating for only a few months, the post was attacked one sultry June morning by angry members of several Plains Indian tribes, whose physical and cultural survival depending on the great bison herd that were rapidly shrinking before the white men's guns. Initially defeated, that attacking Indians retreated. But the defenders also retreated leaving the deserted post to be burned by Indians intent on erasing all traces of the white man's presence. Nonetheless, tracing did remain, and in the ashes and dirt were buried minute details of the hide men's lives and the battle that so suddenly changed them. A little more than a century later white men again dug into the sod at Adobe Walls. The nineteenth-century men dug for profits, but the modern hunters sere looking for the natural time capsule inadvertently left by those earlier adventurers. The authors of this book, a historian and an archeologists, have dug into the sod and into far-flung archives to sift reality form the long-romanticized story of Adobe Walls, its residents, and the Indians who so fiercely resented their presence. The full story of Adobe Walls now tells us much about the life and work of the hide men, about the dying of the Plains Indian culture, and about the march of white commerce across the frontier.

Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls

Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls
Title Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls PDF eBook
Author Alvin R. Lynn
Publisher
Pages 328
Release 2014
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

Download Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"Following two journeys, Kit Carson's 1864 military expedition from Fort Bascom to Adobe Walls and Alvin Lynn's journey to document what happened are told"--

Ghosts of the Adobe Walls

Ghosts of the Adobe Walls
Title Ghosts of the Adobe Walls PDF eBook
Author Nell Murbarger
Publisher
Pages 398
Release 1969
Genre Cities and towns
ISBN

Download Ghosts of the Adobe Walls Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Behind Adobe Walls

Behind Adobe Walls
Title Behind Adobe Walls PDF eBook
Author Landt Dennis
Publisher Chronicle Books
Pages 0
Release 1997-04-01
Genre Photography
ISBN 9780811811644

Download Behind Adobe Walls Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

At last, a beautiful, affordable style book that offers a rare insider's look at the highly personal and innovative aesthetic for which the Southwest is famed. Santa Fe residents Lisl and Landt Dennis have documented eighteen of the most unusual and awe-inspiring homes and gardens of the Santa Fe and Taos area. Meet the owners and designers, tour their homes, and witness the grand vision and loving detail they have devoted to their living spaces. With two hundred gorgeous full-color photographs, Behind Adobe Walls is an essential keepsake for the Southwestern native or visitor, and a visual inspiration for anyone who would like to create their own Santa Fe, wherever they may call home.

Dying Thunder

Dying Thunder
Title Dying Thunder PDF eBook
Author Terry C. Johnston
Publisher St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pages 420
Release 2013-07-23
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1466849711

Download Dying Thunder Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Dying Thunder Terry Johnston Newly freed from service with the 10th Cavalry, Seamus Donegan joins a party of buffalo hunters as they follow the shrinking herds into the ancient hunting grounds of the Kiowa and Comanche. The presence of the white men ignites a storm of Indian fury and the group is besieged. Donegan and some 27 men and one woman take shelter in a few sod shanties. They hold off over 700 braves for five days in the fight at Adobe Walls. From then on, the U.S. Army would not rest until the Indians of the Staked Plain returned to their reservations. Under the command of Colonel Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Seamus Donegan rides back to that embattled land as the U.S. Army tracks the tribes of Chief Quanan Parker to Palo Duro canyon--for a bloody showdown that would forever change the face of the West.

Life and Adventures of 'Billy' Dixon

Life and Adventures of 'Billy' Dixon
Title Life and Adventures of 'Billy' Dixon PDF eBook
Author Billy Dixon
Publisher Litres
Pages 227
Release 2021-12-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 5040832680

Download Life and Adventures of 'Billy' Dixon Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Small Adobe House

The Small Adobe House
Title The Small Adobe House PDF eBook
Author Agnesa Reeve
Publisher Gibbs Smith
Pages 108
Release 2001
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9781586850654

Download The Small Adobe House Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book is both an introduction to adobe structures and an idea book for those who want to remodel a classic home or build a new one. 80 photos, 75 in full color.