Adobe Walls
The History and Archeology of the 1874 Trading Post
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…
Mehr
CHF 65.00
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V104:
Folgt in ca. 10 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Harrison, Billy R.
- ISBN: 978-0-89096-243-5
- EAN: 9780890962435
- Produktnummer: 1396798
- Verlag: Texas A&M University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
- Seitenangabe: 452 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.0 cm 842 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 842
Über den Autor
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.
19 weitere Werke von T. Lindsay Baker:
Bewertungen
Anmelden