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    The First Battle of Adobe Walls took place between the United States Army and American Indians. The Kiowa, Comanche and Plains Apache (Kiowa Apache) tribes...
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    Second Battle of Adobe Walls was fought on June 27, 1874, between Comanche forces and a group of 28 Texan bison hunters defending the settlement of Adobe Walls...
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  • battles between Native Americans and settlers. In November 1864 First Battle of Adobe Walls, Native Americans successfully repelled attacking troops led...
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    Satanta (category Battles involving the Comanche)
    sub-chief of his tribe, under Dohäsan, as Chief. He fought with him at the First Battle of Adobe Walls, and earned enduring fame for his use of an army...
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    Comanche Wars (category Wars involving the indigenous peoples of North America)
    First Battle of Adobe Walls was a battle fought against the United States Army and the Comanche Allies of Kiowa, and the Plains Apaches. The battle began...
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    Kit Carson (category People of the Conquest of California)
    forces against the southwestern tribes at the First Battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle. Adobe Walls was an abandoned trading post that had been...
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  • Adobe Walls may refer to: Adobe Walls, Texas, Ghost town in Hutchinson County First Battle of Adobe Walls, 1864 battle in Hutchinson County Second Battle...
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    Dohasan (category Battles involving the Comanche)
    at the First Battle of Adobe Walls. The first battle of Adobe Walls occurred on November 26, 1864, in the vicinity of Adobe Walls, the ruins of William...
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  • Texas–Indian wars (category Battles involving the Comanche)
    all of them, with the aid of the friendly Penateka chief Asa-havey (who, after this, became a specialist in this job). The first battle of Adobe Walls occurred...
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    Tom Ketchum (category 20th-century executions of American people)
    outlaws in another gun battle, resulting in both Love and Farr being killed, while the posse wounded at least two unknown members of the gang. Sam Ketchum...
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    Bat Masterson (category Canadian people of Irish descent)
    during the battle, though the actual number killed is not known, with reports ranging from a low of 30 to a high of 70. The defenders of Adobe Walls lost only...
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    The makeup of poker's dead man's hand has varied through the years. Currently, it is described as a two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and...
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    The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's...
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  • This is a list of Old West gunfighters, referring to outlaws or lawmen, of the American frontier who gained fame or notoriety during the American Wild...
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    Bass Reeves (category Gunslingers of the American Old West)
    Chickasaw, Seminole and Creek. Bass was one of the first African-American Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River mostly working in the deadly...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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    Billy the Kid (category American people convicted of murdering police officers)
    positioned themselves on the roof of a saloon. Henry Newton Brown, Dick Smith, and George Coe defended a nearby adobe bunkhouse. On Tuesday, July 16, newly...
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    Billy Dixon (category Civilian recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    found Adobe Walls, fired a buffalo rifle shot at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, and for his actions at the "Buffalo Wallow Fight" became one of eight...
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    Sundance Kid (category American people of English descent)
    and Butch Cassidy to escape the dogged pursuit of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where most historians...
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    Frank McLaury (category Gunslingers of the American Old West)
    to the Sulphur Springs Valley. They dug a well and built a substantial adobe ranch house, a barn, corrals, and irrigation ditches for farming. They owned...
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    known in the North as Battle of Antietam and Second Battle of Bull Run were referred to as the Battle of Sharpsburg and the Battle of Manassas, respectively...
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    described—only adobe towns. While among the towns, Coronado heard an additional rumor from a native he called "the Turk": that there was a city with plenty of gold...
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    Jesse James (category Perpetrators of American Civil War prisoner of war massacres)
    at the outbreak of war. Frank James joined a local company recruited for the secessionist Drew Lobbs Army, and fought at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in...
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  • Fort Bascom (category History of San Miguel County, New Mexico)
    Kit Carson engaged the Comanches and Kiowas in the First Battle of Adobe Walls in the heart of the Texas Panhandle. The fort was abandoned in 1870....
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    Gunfighter (category Gunslingers of the American Old West)
    mile away with his Sharps rifle, during a standoff in the Second Battle of Adobe Walls. General George S. Patton himself had a gunfight when he was a young...
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    Texas Panhandle at the site of Carson's 1864 battle at Adobe Walls. The Second Battle of Adobe Walls marked the beginning of the Buffalo War (or Red River...
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    Chief Seattle (category History of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest)
    speech. Duwamish people Duwamish Tribe Suquamish people Battle of Seattle (1856) History of Seattle before 1900 Chief Sealth International High School...
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    Histories of the West (First ed.). Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 330. ISBN 978-0-8061-2170-3. "Virgil Earp – Upholding the Law of the West"...
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    the Civil War, the Confederate Army had invaded New Mexico. During the Battle of Glorieta Pass in March 1862, the Confederates lost their supply wagons...
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    Mattie Blaylock (category People of the American Old West)
    have been found throughout her life using the name "Mattie". The first known record of Mattie's presence is a picture taken in Fort Scott in 1871. It's...
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