Download or read book Life of Billy Dixon written by Olive King Dixon and published by Texas Monthly Press. This book was released on 1927 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of "Billy" Dixon 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, Kowa and Cheyenne warriors on horseback charge out of the pre-dawn darkness toward a few dozen buffalo hunters.
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Billy Dixon written by Billy Dixon and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Billy Dixon written by Billy Dixon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Life and Adventures of "Billy" Dixon" (A Narrative in which is Described many things Relating to the Early Southwest) by Billy Dixon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Billy Dixon of Adobe Walls Texas Panhandle written by Billy Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William "Billy" Dixon scouted the Texas Panhandle for the Army, hunted buffalo for the train companies, defended the Adobe Walls settlement against Indian attack with his legendary buffalo rifle, and was one of eight civilians in the history of the U.S. to receive the Medal of Honor. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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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.
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Billy Dixon of Adobe Walls Texas Panhandle Scholar s Choice Edition written by Billy Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Billy Dixon of Adobe Walls Texas Panhandle a Narrative in Which Is Described Many Things Relating to the Early Southwest with an Account of the Fights Between Indians and Buffalo Hunters at Adobe Walls and the Desperate Engage written by Billy Dixon and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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:
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.
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.
Download or read book Life of Billy Dixon written by Olive King Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hunting the Dragon written by Peter Dixon and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Crawford is a blond, eighteen-year-old surfer from Southern California, working in Fiji as a surfing instructor. But when he gets fired for leading his students into some dangerous surf, his endless summer seems to be over, and he decides that it's time to get a real job. He comes across a tuna clipper called Lucky Dragon whose crew is short a boatman, and the first mate offers him a job. What Billy doesn't know is that the clipper finds tuna by following dolphins. When Lucky Dragon sets its net for the first time, Billy witnesses a harrowing sight???dolphins being killed by the Dragon's money-hungry pirates. When he attempts to save a dolphin who is caught in the tuna net, the Dragon's captain tosses Billy and his belongings???including his surfboard???into the ocean and leaves.
Download or read book Life of Billy Dixon Plainsman Scout and Pioneer written by Olive K. Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With An Account Of The Fights Between Indians And Buffalo Hunters At Adobe Walls And At Buffalo Wallow, For Which Congress Voted The Medal Of Honor To The Survivors.
Download or read book Billy Above the Roofs written by Bob Ross and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Ross writes with an authenticity as poetic and unforgiving as the Nebraska Sandhills themselves. The nine connected stories Billy Above the Roofs paint an indelible portrait of the life and times of one Billy Dixon in an era on the Great Plains not entirely bygone. From the first line of the prologue, "After Billy Dixon's hilltop suicide," which takes place as "the sun's flat chin still rested on the horizon," to the end of this remarkable book, we follow the protagonist to his death in the company of lovers and the inhabitants of Turtle Lodge, Nebraska, on a bluff overlooking the endless lands of the past.
Download or read book Life of Billy Dixon written by Oliver K. Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative in which are described many things relating to the early Southwest, with an accout of the fights between Indians and buffalo hunters at Adobe Walls and at Buffalo Wallow, for which Congress voted the Medal of Honor the the survivors.
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Billy Dixon of Adobe Walls Texas Panhandle written by Billy Dixson and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William "Billy" Dixon (1850 – 1913) scouted the Texas Panhandle for the Army, hunted buffalo for the train companies, defended the Adobe Walls settlement against Indian attack with his legendary buffalo rifle, and was one of eight civilians in the history of the U.S. to receive the Medal of Honor.
