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Adobe Walls
The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post
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Artikel-Nr:
9781585441761
Veröffentl:
1986
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.04.1986
Seiten:
452
Autor:
T. Lindsay Baker
Gewicht:
650 g
Format:
229x152x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.