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T. Lindsay Baker
Auteur van Ghost Towns of Texas
Over de Auteur
T. Lindsay Baker holds the W. K. Gordon Chair in Texas Industrial History at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, and serves as the director of the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History at the Thurber ghost town near Mingus, Texas. Among other works, he is the author of Ghost toon meer Towns of Texas and More Ghost Towns of Texas, and he is coeditor of the WPA. Oklahoma Slave Narratives. toon minder
Werken van T. Lindsay Baker
Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph M. Bailey (Civil War in the West) (2007) — Redacteur — 10 exemplaren
More Texas Stories I Like to Tell My Friends: The Tales of Adventure and Intrigue Continue from the History of the Lone… (2012) 8 exemplaren
Texas Red River Country: The Official Surveys of the Headwaters, 1876 (Environmental History Series) (1998) 3 exemplaren
A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Glen Rose, Texas: Bypassed, Forgotten, and Preserved (Volume 30) (Tarleton… (2022) 1 exemplaar
The early history of Panna Maria, Texas 1 exemplaar
Water for the Southwest. 1 exemplaar
Panhandle-Plains historical review, 1985 / 1 exemplaar
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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.… (meer)