Adobe Walls

The History and Archeology of the 1874 Trading Post

By: T. Lindsay Baker, Billy R. Harrison, B. Byron Price (Foreword by)

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Hardcover | 1 March 1986

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In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south to follow the herds, they intended to establish a trading post to serve the hunter, or &;hide men.&; At a place called Adobe Walls they dug blocks from the sod and built their center of operations

After operating for only a few months, the post was attacked one sultry June morning by angry members of several Plains Indian tribes, whose physical and cultural survival depending on the great bison herd that were rapidly shrinking before the white men&;s guns.

Initially defeated, that attacking Indians retreated. But the defenders also retreated leaving the deserted post to be burned by Indians intent on erasing all traces of the white man&;s presence. Nonetheless, tracing did remain, and in the ashes and dirt were buried minute details of the hide men&;s lives and the battle that so suddenly changed them.

A little more than a century later white men again dug into the sod at Adobe Walls. The nineteenth-century men dug for profits, but the modern hunters sere looking for the natural time capsule inadvertently left by those earlier adventurers.

The authors of this book, a historian and an archeologists, have dug into the sod and into far-flung archives to sift reality form the long-romanticized story of Adobe Walls, its residents, and the Indians who so fiercely resented their presence. The full story of Adobe Walls now tells us much about the life and work of the hide men, about the dying of the Plains Indian culture, and about the march of white commerce across the frontier.

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...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

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Published: 4th April 1986

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List of Figures	p. vii
List of Maps	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
History
The Hide Men Come to Adobe Walls	p. 3
Seeds of Unrest Flower into Violence	p. 39
The Battle of Adobe Walls	p. 50
Who Was Really There?	p. 75
Adobe Walls after the Fight	p. 93
Adobe Walls since 1874	p. 110
Archeology
The Setting	p. 125
Overview of the Site and Field Work	p. 130
Structures	p. 137
Building Furnishings	p. 174
Tools and Equipment	p. 182
Transportation	p. 232
Containers	p. 238
Personal Artifacts	p. 251
Unclassifiable, Geologic, and Zoological Artifacts	p. 279
Conclusion	p. 289
Notes	p. 295
Bibliography	p. 343
Index	p. 393
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Adobe Walls

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