In 1864, Col Kit Carson and his US troops, under orders from the New Mexico Military Dept., attacked Kiowa Chief Dohasans winter village in the Texas panhandle ..fighting proceeded down the Canadian River to the abandoned trading post of Adobe Walls, as hundreds more Kiowa and Commanches joined the battle. Nearing sunset, Carsons troops burned Dohasans village, and although remarkably few lives were lost in the battle itself, the enduring consequences were hardly insignificant. Well-known as an explorer, guide, and frontiersman, Carsons involvement at the First Battle of Adobe Walls (second was 1874)) has been overlooked. Beginning his research in the 1990s, Alvin Lynn set out to fill the void when he located and walked the 200 mile-long wagon road from Fort Bascom to Adobe Walls and collected 1,800 metal artifacts from 15 historic camps, including the burned Kiowa village. Among the recovered artifacts were fired friction primers verifying the placement of howitzers at the battle site. With nearly eighty battle site and artifact photographs taken by renowned photographer Wyman Meinzer, the book documents Carsons military expedition from Ft. Bascom to Adobe Walls and Lynns own journey more than a century later to discover what really happened.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:20:21 +0000
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