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Published by State House Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 0938349120ISBN 13: 9780938349129
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Published by State House Press, Austin, 1987
Seller: Young & Sons Enterprises, Apache, OK, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Facsimile Edition. Near-fine softcover copy of the facsimile edition, 1987. A previous owner's name plate inside front cover.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC 10/27/2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1258976765ISBN 13: 9781258976767
Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Buffalo Wallow Fight: Extract from Life of Billy Dixon 0.09. Book.
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Published by Union National Bank, Houston, 1935
Seller: Young & Sons Enterprises, Apache, OK, U.S.A.
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Stapled Booklet. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. "Good" condition booklet, reprint, 1935, by Union Naitonal Bank. Some staining to covers and general reading/handling wear. No names or writing within.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC 10/15/2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 1258135302ISBN 13: 9781258135300
Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Life Of Billy Dixon, Plainsman, Scout And Pioneer: A Narrative In Which Are Described Many Things Relating To The Early Southwest 0.87. Book.
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Published by Literary Licensing, LLC 5/31/2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 1258031183ISBN 13: 9781258031183
Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Life Of Billy Dixon, Plainsman, Scout And Pioneer: A Narrative In Which Are Described Many Things Relating To The Early Southwest 1.32. Book.
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Published by P.L. Turner Company, Dallas, Texas, 1914
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Revised Edition. CI4 - A revised edition hardcover book in fair condition that is lightly bowed, some bumped corners, wrinkled spine edges and upper part of the spine, scattered stains, foxing, smudges, wrinkling, crease and few dents, tanning, and shelf wear with no dust jacket. A Narrative in which are Described Many Things Relating to the Early Southwest, with an Account of the Fights Between Indians and Buffalo Hunters at Adobe Walls and at Buffalo Wallow, for which Congress voted the Medal of Honor to the Survivors. 7.5"x5", 251 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Billy Dixon (William Dixon) was an American scout and bison hunter active in the Texas Panhandle. He helped found Adobe Walls, fired a buffalo rifle shot at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, and for his actions at the "Buffalo Wallow Fight" became one of eight civilians ever to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. Dixon was born in Ohio County in the panhandle region of West Virginia, on September 25, 1850. Of European descent, he was orphaned at age 12 and lived with an uncle in Missouri for a year before setting out on his own. He worked in woodcutters' camps along the Missouri River until he started working at age 14 as an ox driver and a muleskinner for a government contractor in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was a skilled marksman and occasionally scouted for eastern excursionists brought by the railroads. In 1869 he joined a venture in hunting and trapping on the Saline River northwest of Fort Hays in Kansas. He scouted Texas as far south as the Salt Fork of the Red River when the bison hunters moved into the Texas Panhandle in 1874. He and his group hunted along the Canadian River and its tributaries. Dixon led the founders of Adobe Walls to the Texas Plains, where he knew bison were in abundance. The group of 28 men and one woman occupied the outpost of five buildings 15 miles northeast of Stinnett. The outpost was attacked on June 27, 1874, by a band of 700-1200 Natives. The stand-off continued into a third day, when a group of Natives were noticed less than a mile east of Adobe Walls. It is said that Dixon took aim with a quickly borrowed .50-90 Sharps buffalo rifle (as, according to his biography, he only had a .45-90 Sharps and felt it could not reach). He knocked the Native man off his horse, killing him. Understanding how far the guns could fire, the Natives then withdrew and left the settlement alone. Dixon's shot was measured at over 1,500 yards, earning him a position on the list of longest recorded sniper kills. Dixon stated in his biography that it was a "scratch shot". On 12 September 1874, Dixon and another civilian scout, Amos Chapman, were carrying dispatches from McClellan Creek to Fort Supply with Sergeant Zachariah T. Woodall, Private Peter Roth, Private John Harrington, and Private George W. Smith, as part of General Nelson A. Miles Sixth Cavalry when they were encircled at sunrise by a "large band of Kiowa and Comanche warriors" near the Washita River. Dismounting, George Smith was mortally wounded. Soon, Woodall, Harrington, Dixon and Chapman were wounded. All except Smith and Chapman had by noon made their way to a nearby bison wallow ten feet in diameter, where they used their hands and knives to throw up the sandy dirt all around the sides. Sitting upright, each man "fired deliberately, taking good aim, and were picking off an indian at almost every round." Dixon eventually ran for Chapman, whose left knee had been shattered, and carried him back to the wallow. By 3 PM, a thunderstorm brought rain and relief from their thirst, but when the wind "shifted to the north", the cold brought discomfort to all parties, especially the Natives who sat on their horses out of rifle range "with their blankets drawn tightly around them." Roth went for Smith's gun and ammunition, but when Smith was discovered still alive, Roth and Dixon brought Smith back to the wallow where he died during the night. At daylight, Dixon went for help, soon encountering troops under the command.
Brown cloth, gilt spine title. Condition: Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1927 edition. weight: 1.3 lb. Fine in a very good dust dust jacket with a short closed tear. Introduction by George B. Ward. 12 photo illustrations. 22.3x14 cm. xxii, 258 pp.
Published by P.L. Turner Co., TX, 1927
Seller: Bartlesville Public Library, Bartlesville, OK, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hard cover bound book in fair condition with rubbing wear and small tears to the cover. Corners are lightly bent inward. Contents are in good condition.
Published by P.L. Turner Co., Dallas, 1927
Seller: The Wright Collection, Waxahachie, TX, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Revised ed. Red cloth (some spotting), 251 pp., photos. No d.j. Bookplate. Smaller format. Written by his wife, an excellent Texas book. Dixon was in the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874 where the buffalo hunters fought a large group of Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Commanche & Kiowa. Later scouted for Gen. Miles. Congess later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to the survivors of Adobe Walls.
Published by State House Press, Austin, 1987
ISBN 10: 0938349112ISBN 13: 9780938349112
Seller: Steven G. Jennings, Spring Branch, TX, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Except for mild fading to background color of dj's spine, this book looks and feels like new. Dj protected in archival-quality mylar.
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Published by P.L. Turner Co., Dallas, 1927
Seller: The Wright Collection, Waxahachie, TX, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Revised ed. Green cloth, 251 pp., photos. New marbled endpapers, contents fine. Revised edition. Written by his wife. Dixon was in the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874 where the buffalo hunters fought a large group of Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Commanche & Kiowa Indians. Later scouted for Gen. Miles. Congess later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to the survivors of Adobe Walls. Very nice tight copy.
Published by P. L. Turner Company, Dallas, TX, 1927
Seller: Cornerstone Books, Santa Ana, CA, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This is a biography of Billy Dixon. Dixon was born in 1850 in West Virginia. He moved out west when young where he became a hunter and a scout. His wife writes about his many adventures and battles with Indians. Eventually he settled down, and his wife wrote the biography. But not before Dixon died of pneumonia in 1913. Included are photographs. This copy has wear to the cloth. The jacket is chipped at the head showing shelfwear.
Published by P.L. Turner Co., Dallas, 1927
Seller: The Wright Collection, Waxahachie, TX, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Revised ed. Green cloth (some speckling on spine & front edge), 251 pp., photos. No d.j. Front hinge cracking. Written by his wife, an excellent Texas book. Dixon was in the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874 where the buffalo hunters fought a large group of Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Commanche & Kiowa. Later scouted for Gen. Miles. Congess later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to the survivors of Adobe Walls.
Published by The Southwest Press, 1927
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Red cloth cover. Revised edition. Binding still tight. One picture has a piece cut out of it. No dust jacket.; Red cloth cover. Revised edition.
Published by The Southwest Press, Dallas, 1927
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Revised Edition. Revised edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Grey cloth titled in black; xvi,251,[1]pp; frontispiece portrait, black and white halftone plates. Former owner's signature to half-title, old prices written and rubber-stamped on half-title and front free endpaper. Otherwise a clean, stable copy, through rubbed and spine-sunned: Very Good. Billy Dixon was an American frontier scout, active in the Texas Panhandle in the 1870s and 1880s. He hunted bison herds in the area and participated in the Second Battle of Adobe Walls and the Battle of Buffalo Wallow; for his actions in the latter, he was awarded the US Medal of Honor. This biography, was dictated by Dixon to his wife Olive; a previous edition was published in 1914 in Guthrie, OK. RADER 1147. HOWES B135. [63462].
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (1927) Revised edition, 251 pages, frontis, photos, long owner inscription on fly-leaf, minor edge wear to jacket with a light spine fade, price clipped, the jacket is very scarce. The story of a noted marksman, who killed an Indian at over 1,500 yards with a .50 cal. Rifle. Dodge City, Bat Masterson, Buffalo Hunters, Nelson Miles, Indian fighting, etc. Very good reading. Howes B135, Rader 1147.
Published by Frederick S. Barde, Guthrie, 1914
Seller: The Wright Collection, Waxahachie, TX, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Green cloth w/gilt lettering, 320 pp., photos, index. Front hinge cracking, top corner one inch of pages 285 & 287 torn off, small tear to edge of page 315. RARE work on a Texas plainsman, scout, buffalo hunter, & pioneer. A Narrative.with an Account of the Fight Between Indians and Buffalo Hunters at Adobe Walls, and the Desperate Engagement at Buffalo Wallow, for which Congress voted the Medal of Honor to the Survivors.
Published by Co-Operative Publishing Co., Guthrie OK, 1914
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 320 pages, frontis, photos, minor wear to edges, a couple pages have light offsetting (something was laid in.) Inscribed, To E. A. Brininstool with kindest regards and best wishes of the author Olive K. Dixon Mia? Texas June 41924. On the front pastedown is an original photo of Hugh Dixon. On the second fly-leaf is an original photo of Olive K. Dixon 1932. Above the title heading of chapter 8 is written in pencil read carefully either by Brininstool or Dixon. Brininstool has notes and or underlining on four other pages. The story of a noted marksman, who killed an Indian at over 1,500 yards with a .50 cal. Rifle. Very good reading. Howes B135, Rader 1146.