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Adobe Walls: The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post

Name: Adobe Walls: The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post
Brand: Texas A&M University Press
SKU: 9781585441761
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Contributors:

T. Lindsay Baker, Billy R. Harrison, B. Byron Price (Foreword by)

Publisher:

Texas A&M University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Archaeology, United States, Ethnic Studies

Book Topic:

American

Series:

History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post

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Release Date:

2007-09-13

ISBN 13:

9781585441761

Weight:

1.31 lbs

Size:

9.04 x 6.11 x 1.05 inches

Pages:

430

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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.

About the Author
T. Lindsay Baker, the award-winning author of many book, is the director of the Texas Heritage Museum at Hill County College in Hillsboro, Texas.Billy R. Harrison is curator of archeology at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas. A graduate of West Texas State University;, he has excavated historic and prehistoric sites and structures in Alaska and at the French Legation in Austin, Texas. He is the author of a book on the Lake Theo site as well as of articles on other archeological sites in Texas.

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