Adobe Walls : the history and archeology of the 1874 trading post / by T. Lindsay Baker and Billy R. Harrison ; foreword by B. Byron Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, T. Lindsay.

Contributor:

Harrison, Billy R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adobe Walls, 2nd Battle of, Tex., 1874.

Adobe Walls Site (Tex.).

Physical Description:

xx, 413 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, [1986]

Summary:

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. Initially defeated, the attacking Indians retreated. But the defenders also retreated, and intent on erasing all traces of the white man's presence, the Indians burned the deserted post. Nonetheless, tracings did remain, and in the ashes were buried minute details of the hide men's lives.

Adobe Walls tells us much about the dying of the Plains Indian culture and the march of white commerce across the frontier.

Contents:

Part 1 History

Chapter 1. The Hide Men Come to Adobe Walls 3

Chapter 2. Seeds of Unrest Flower into Violence 39

Chapter 3. The Battle of Adobe Walls 50

Chapter 4. Who Was Really There? 75

Chapter 5. Adobe Walls after the Fight 93

Chapter 6. Adobe Walls since 1874 110

Part 2 Archeology

Chapter 7. The Setting 125

Chapter 8. Overview of the Site and Field Work 130

Chapter 9. Structures 137

Chapter 10. Building Furnishings 174

Chapter 11. Tools and Equipment 182

Chapter 12. Transportation 232

Chapter 13. Containers 238

Chapter 14. Personal Artifacts 251

Chapter 15. Unclassifiable, Geologic, and Zoological Artifacts 279.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [343]-391.

ISBN:

089096243X :

OCLC:

12344096