11. BARDE, Frederick S. (compiler). Life and
Adventures of "Billy" Dixon of Adobe Walls, Texas
Panhandle.... Guthrie: [Co-Operative Publishing Co.,
1914]. 320 pp., photographic illustrations (including
Quanah Parker). 8vo, original green cloth gilt-lettered on
spine and upper cover. Binding slightly flecked, else fine
and bright. Laid in is a small printed circular advertising
the book. Rare in this condition, and a desirable copy with
the ad card. The Josey copy with their bookplate on front
pastedown. Pingenot: "An unusually fine copy of a rare book
most often found in shabby condition."
First
edition. Adams, Herd 204. Dobie, p. 159: "Bully
autobiography; excellent on the buffalo hunters as a type."
Graff 183. Howes B135. Tate, The Indians of Texas: An
Annotated Research Bibliography 3112. Pingenot: This
is the first primary work to include the famous Adobe Walls
fight of June 27, 1874. The Handbook of Texas Online
(Adobe Walls): "The second battle of Adobe
Walls...occurred...when a buffalo hunters’ camp...in
what is now Hutchinson County...was attacked by a party of
about 700 Plains Indians, mostly Cheyennes, Comanches, and
Kiowas, under the leadership of Quanah Parker and
Isa-tai....The significance of this fight is that it led to
the Red River War of 1874-75, which resulted in the final
relocation of the Southern Plains Indians to reservations
in what is now Oklahoma."
($300-600)