Life and Adventures of "Billy" Dixon of Adobe Walls, Texas Panhandle: A Narrative in Which Is Described Many Things Relating to the Early Southwest

The real American frontier, told by a man who lived it. Billy Dixon arrived on the Texas Panhandle as a young man chasing adventure and found himself in the last great hunting ground on earth, when the buffalo herds numbered in the millions and the plains belonged to anyone brave enough to claim them. This is his story, recorded in his own words, of the blood and terror and strange beauty of the buffalo hunt, of the attacks at Adobe Walls where a handful of hunters held off hundreds of warriors, and of the desperate cavalry charge at Buffalo Wallow that earned him and his companions the Medal of Honor. Dixon writes with the plain, fierce honesty of a man who watched the Old West die in his lifetime. He does not romanticize. He simply tells what he saw: the loneliness, the loss, the savage freedom of a world that was already vanishing as he lived it. This is primary source American history at its most raw and unforgettable.