The Siege of Adobe Walls

The Siege of Adobe Walls

The year was 1874 and the place was the Texas Panhandle. A man named William Olds and his wife joined with a company of twenty-seven other buffalo hunters who were using a settlement called Adobe Walls as a base for forays pursuing the bison that roamed the surrounding flatlands.
(Their number included a deadly accurate twenty-year-old marksman named Bat Masterson.)
Three tribes: The Kiowas, the Cheyennes and the Comanches were gathered under the leadership of the Comanche chief Quanah Parker to fight the buffalo hunters who were violating their territory. Other tribes, such as the Osages and the Cherokees, were willing to join them if they overwhelmed the settlement at Adobe Walls.
Was it Louis L'amour who said that, "If the Indians had produced a Genghis
Khan, the White Men would have never had a chance"? As we now know, that leader never rose among their ranks. Yet, this was Quanah Parker's lost opportunity to unite the tribes under his command.
What happened at Adobe Walls that kept him from fulfilling that promise?
(I originally wrote "The Siege of Adobe Walls" for the April, 2002 issue of ROUNDUP, the Magazine of the Western Writers of America, in recognition of
the historical significance of that event.)
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-06-26
Format Kindle eBook

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