Adobe Walls
Baker, T. Lindsay / Harrison, Billy R. 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,...