Greetings from Australia. I grew up on a cane farm but we hosted an exchange student from Texas when I was a kid. He was from Brownsville TX and for hours he would tell me Texan history. Finally about 30 years later I got to see many of the places he told me about. Texans are damn good proud friendly folk. I had a great time and I found Texan attitude kind of like us . In fact I find most Yanks are damn good people. God Bless the Lone Star state.

The battle site is open for visitors. It is outside of Stinnett, Texas on the Turkey Track Ranch. Monuments are there to commemorate the buffalo hunters and the Indians. Billy Dixon’s grave is at the site also. The mesa is a long way off which makes Billy’s shot all the more impressive.

I love the way he tells the story. Simple and unexaggerated.

.Being born and raised in Borger Texas and a dirt bike rider as a kid I followed the river up to Adobe Walls. Thank you for this story.

This was somewhat lengthy but very entertaining; thank you for sharing this thrilling story. I wish I were as skilled with my rifle as these individuals were.

Excellent telling of the story of the 2nd battle of Adobe Walls! Very very good!

That was the best version of that story that I have heard yet. I’ve heard it a couple other times but they were missing so many details to the story. Great video bro!

Terrific reading of the battle, the crow calls were a good laugh, great stuff.

I’m glad you came out with a long story

My wife and I managed the HQ of the Turkey Track Ranch which is where the Battles of Adobe Walls took place. I would often drive our John Deere down to the site, using the Brushhog attachment would clear the area so visitors could walk around the site. I would often look towards the mesa where the Medicine Man sat on the day Billy shot him and think.. That's a helluva shot. There's a hill just south- southwest of the site that hides Billy's house. He settled there and built a home for his wife. The ranch still uses it for a ranch hand. The headquarters is only a few miles from the site but is well hidden and off limits. We retired and left the Panhandle with memories that we will always have.

I didn’t know Bat was there…Very cool!

Great narrative,thanx

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At the Star of the Republic museum at Washington on thr Brazos State Park in Washington Tx thery have Billy Dixons revolver on display. There are no manufacturers marking on it. I took several photos of it and showed them to several rare weapons collectors I knew. (On a side note one of those collectors had purchased a Colt Walker revolver that been dug up after many years in the ground. It was inbad contition but still it was easily identified as a Walker Colt.) Back to Dixons revolver, all agreed it was probably assembled from parts from several other guns by a gunsmith in Mexico. I wish I could find those photos now. I live about 75 miles east of Washington Tx and need to stop in and re photograph the revolver. Another scrape Dixon had with indians was The Battle of Upper Washita River on September 12 1874. Dixon and Amos Chapman along with 6 shoulders were surrounded by aprox 125 Comanche and Kiowa indians. This battle was also in the Texas panhandle about 22 miles SE of Canadian Tx😮

As a Child Growing up the Sharpe's rifle supposedly used hung on my cousins grand ma's fireplace She had the First Log Cabin built in the TX panhandle in North Side of Canadian Tx

I’ve been down in many of Mexico’s very rural towns and found similar buildings with gun ports used to defend against Indians. Same adobe and window/door construction. Tenzompa in Jalisco El Alto was most memorable.

This personal account was a treasure to hear

Great work mate. Excellent presentation.

Great story telling. Thank you.

There was a scene in Outlaw Josie Wales where Josey (Clint Eastwood) said when times look like you ain't gonna make it you gotta get mean plum mad dog mean and I think this is surely what these men did. They did the only thing they knew how to do and that was to survive. Can't imagine what that whole thing must have been like. It is a shame that ladies husband after all they had been through died from an accident.

About 10 years ago the magazine "Precession Shooting" ran an article recounting the history of the shoot as well as duplicating the shot.

Thanks, Widwestfaces.

Great story. Really enjoyed it.

Loved the images with the narrative

Love this narration. Story is accurate

Every time i hear that story it makes me wish i had been there.

Good job!

Is there a current Adobe walls site for tourists to come visit and look at?

I have read that Mr. Dixon's long shot had killed an Indian Chief, but it would seem to not be true.

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Wow l liked this story from the start bc of the starting date june 26....my birth day. Lol

I think it was too much of a coincidence for that beam to crack when there were so many Indians preparing to attack. May have been a Indian scout walking on the roof trying to get intel before the attack.

Dutch Henry? The horse thief?

The account of this shot never appeared until after Dixon’s death. Further Numerous people there at the time never mentioned it. Including no less than “Bat” Masterson. Who I would have thought would have written about it. Since it vern appeared any where previous to the publishing of “The Life of Billy Dixon”. This cause me wonder if its based on a VERY similar occurrence in 1874 in Montana. Which was witnessed and written about at the time such as the Bozeman, Montana newspaper. This was done by a man named Jack Bean who had a Sharps in 44-2 5/8” case with a telescopic sight. It is detailed in “The 1874 Invasion of Montana: A Prelude to the Custer Disaster” by Don L. Weibert. It was only through Weibert’s research that this resurfaced. Franking given the lack of supporting evidence, I think the Dixon shot was something fabricated after his death.

1500 yard Bull !

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