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

Baker, T. Lindsay; Harrison, Billy R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089096243X ISBN 13: 9780890962435

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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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Review:

...a milestone in the historical archaeology of the Southern Plains and an eloquent testimony to the cooperation of scholars with two different but obviously complementary perspectives. - Journal of American History

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 089096243X
• ISBN 13: 9780890962435
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 452