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Author : Billy Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Life of "Billy" Dixon, Plainsman, Scout and Pioneer written by Billy Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olive King Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Life of "Billy" Dixon written by Olive King Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olive King Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Life of "Billy" Dixon, Plainsman, Scout and Pioneer written by Olive King Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olive K. Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Life of "Billy" Dixon written by Olive K. Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Billy Dixon
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ISBN 13 : 9780857064158
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Billy Dixon & Adobe Walls written by Billy Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and Adventures of "Billy" Dixon by Billy Dixon The Battle of Adobe Walls by Edward Campbell Little Two essential accounts of the south western plains in frontier days This special edition book contains two works-'Billy' Dixon's remarkable autobiography of his life on the south western plains of the American frontier of the post Civil War period and a useful and interesting article taken from the pages of Pearsons Magazine which describes the renowned battle at Abode Walls with contributions from many of the participants. For anybody interested in the history of the West, 'Billy' Dixon's name will be a familiar one. Drawn to the excitement of frontier life when no more than a boy, he lived life in full measure as a teamster, buffalo hunter and scout for the army. Dixon was well known as an outstanding marksman and when the day of battle came in July 1874 there were few among the defenders of Adobe Walls more prepared or more equal to the challenges of those three desperate days of conflict. Here legends were made as the Comanches and Kiowas under the renowned Quanah Parker charged to destruction time and again. By Dixon's side fought the young 'Bat Masterson' soon to be known as another figure of fame on the frontier. After Abode Walls Dixon's involvement with Miles' expedition brought him to yet another heroic fight with hostile Indians in the 'Buffalo Wallow Fight'. Together these two narratives make a unique book. Available in soft cover and hard back with dustjacket.
Author : Olive Dixon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Life of Billy Dixon written by Olive Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compelling narrative of the "wild, free life" on the Great Plains frontier. We ride with Billy Dixon to a high point on the plains and look out over a nearly solid mass of buffalo that stretches in every direction as far as the eye can see. We stand with Billy Dixon at Adobe Walls, in the unsettled Texas Panhandle, as hundreds of Comanche, Kiowa and Cheyenne warriors on horseback charge out of the pre-dawn darkness toward a few dozen buffalo hunters. We crouch down in desperation with Billy Dixon at the Buffalo Wallow Fight as he and a few wounded and dying men lie in a shallow depression on the plains surrounded by howling Indians on horseback.
Author : Bill Markley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493035681
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson written by Bill Markley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which lawman did the most to tame the frontier, Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Neither of them was a saint. At times their actions were not in compliance with the law, and they only served as peace officers for limited portions of their lives. What sets them apart from the thousands of sheriffs and marshals who served on America’s frontier? Did they make more arrests than others? Did they kill large numbers of men? Did they lead adventurous lives? Was it their character? Was there just the right ring to their names that led people to remember them? Did they get the right publicity at the right time? Did they just outlive all the others? Or was it a combination of these factors? This joint biography reveals the intersection of their legacies and attempts to answer the questions about their place in the story of the West. .
Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : Eakin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781681791456
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Billy and Olive Dixon written by Bill O'Neal and published by Eakin Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Dixon fired the most celebrated shot in the history of the West at the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874, earned a Medal of Honor in an even more desperate battle, becoming a legend of the West. Olive King, came to the Panhandle of Texas from back East and met and fell in love with the famous frontiersman. This is their story.
Author : Billy Dixon
Publisher : Copano Bay Press
ISBN 13 : 9781941324950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Billy Dixon: His Life and Adventures written by Billy Dixon and published by Copano Bay Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe you've already heard of Billy Dixon. If you have, you probably know him for the shot he made at the second battle of Adobe Walls up in the Panhandle in 1874. It was twenty-eight men and one woman against a force of Comanche, Cheyenne and Kiowa numbering at least 700. Billy Dixon, using a borrowed Sharps .50-90, picked a brave off his horse at such a range that the Indians were spooked and decided to pack it in. US Army surveyors later measured that shot at 1538 yards. That's 9/10ths of a mile. Billy said it was luck. Maybe so, but it takes rare skill to make that kind of luck possible. These are Dixon's memoirs, as dictated to his wife near the end of his life. Dixon was orphaned at age twelve, on his own at fourteen, a muleskinner, a scout and a buffalo hunter. His life of adventure and freedom on the Plains comes alive in these pages.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2398 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1928 with total page 2398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 24 : Nos. 1-148 (March, 1927 - March, 1928)
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clint E. Chambers
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163402
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Comanche Jack Stilwell written by Clint E. Chambers and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1863, the thirteen-year-old boy who would come to be called Comanche Jack was sent to the well to fetch water. Instead, he joined a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. Thus began the exploits of Simpson E. “Jack” Stilwell (1850–1903), a man generally known for slipping through Indian lines to get help for some fifty frontiersmen besieged by the Cheyenne at Beecher Island in 1868. Daring as his part in the rescue might have been, it was only one noteworthy episode of many in Comanche Jack Stilwell’s life—a life whose rollicking story is finally told here in full. In his later years, Stilwell crafted his own legend as a celebrated raconteur. Authors Clint E. Chambers (whose grandfather was Stilwell’s nephew) and Paul H. Carlson scour the available primary and secondary sources to find the unvarnished truth and remarkable facts behind the legend. In a crisp, fast-paced style, the narrative follows Stilwell from his precocious start as a teenage runaway turned teamster on the Santa Fe Trail to his later turns as lawyer, judge, U.S. marshal, hangman, and associate of Buffalo Bill Cody. Along the way, he learned Spanish, Comanche, and sign language, scouted for the U.S. Army, and became a friend of George A. Custer and an avowed, if failed, avenger of his kid brother Frank, an outlaw killed by Wyatt Earp. Unfolding against the backdrop of the Civil War, cattle drives, the Indian Wars, the Oklahoma land rush, and the rough justice of the Wild West, Comanche Jack Stilwell takes a true American character out of the shadows of history and returns to the story of the West one of its defining figures.
Author : Frederick W. Nolan
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896726048
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Tascosa written by Frederick W. Nolan and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ranching boom of the 1880s made the Texas Panhandle town of Tascosa 'the cowboy capital of the world.' Through it passed many people, good and bad, who made history in the West. Yet when the large ranches broke up, Tascosa disappeared as quickly as it had risen"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Jo Ella Powell Exley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603441094
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Frontier Blood written by Jo Ella Powell Exley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must read for anyone with an interest in the far Southwest or Native American history.
Author : Chicago Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585441761
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Adobe Walls written by T. Lindsay Baker and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1986-04-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Gregory Michno
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780878424689
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Indian Wars written by Gregory Michno and published by Mountain Press Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed independent history scholar Gregory Michno has created a chronological listing of every significant fight between Indians and the United States Army, as well as better-known Indian battles with civilian emigrants. This detailed study is more tha
