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.
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