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KIT CARSON'S FIGHT WITH THE COMANCHE AND KIOWA INDIANS, AT THE ADOBE WALLS, ON THE CANADIAN RIVER by Pettis, George - 1908
by Pettis, George
KIT CARSON'S FIGHT WITH THE COMANCHE AND KIOWA INDIANS, AT THE ADOBE WALLS, ON THE CANADIAN RIVER
by Pettis, George
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Santa Fe: New Mexico Printing, 1908. 44pp. Original printed wrappers.(a few embssed library stamps) First hand account by a participant describing the First Battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle. Colonel Kit Carson commanded the First United States Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, which consisted of 335 officers and men, seventy-five scouts and two mountain howitzers. The expedition was executed while the Comanche and Iowa Indians were in winter quarters. The howitzers, commanded by George Pettis, saved Carson's forces from being overrun. Tate Indians of Texas 2734: "Pettis served as a Captain in the First Regiment California Volunteer Infantry during Colonel Kit Carson's 1864 attack upon the Comanche and Kiowa camp at Adobe Walls, in the Texas Panhandle. This remains the standard eyewitness account of the military operations." Graff 3264. Howes P270.Dornbush 2: 138.
- Bookseller Michael Ginsberg Books (US)
- Book Condition Used
- Publisher New Mexico Printing
- Place of Publication Santa Fe
- Date Published 1908
- Keywords NATIVE AMERICAN; TEXAS; WESTERN AMERICANA; CALIFORNIA; HOWES,CIVIL WAR