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Adobe Walls - The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post (Paperback) Loot Price: R882
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Adobe Walls - The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post (Paperback): T Lindsay Baker, Billy R. Harrison

Adobe Walls - The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post (Paperback)

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

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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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Imprint: Texas A & M University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2001
First published: April 1986
Authors: T Lindsay Baker • Billy R. Harrison
Foreword by: B. Byron Price
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 978-1-58544-176-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 1-58544-176-7
Barcode: 9781585441761

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