Billy Dixon - Long shot Adobe Walls 

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.

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

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.

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.

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

.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.

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!

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The museum at yuma proving grounds bought the replica rifle used by the late Mike Venterino to duplicate the shot. They were going to make a display at one time about that.

I’m glad you came out with a long story

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

Great narrative,thanx

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😮

This personal account was a treasure to hear

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

Very good summation of the battle and historical correct. Dixons shot had to be very lucky as an open sight on the buffalo rifle had to be raised way above the Indian or group of Indians he shot at. He admitted this later in his biography. My family is mentioned in his book as the first "small ranchers" in the Panhandle 1982. They settled in an area called "chicken creek" and stayed there for many years.

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.

The battles never talked about are the ones where there were no survivors.

Great work mate. Excellent presentation.

Great story telling. Thank you.

"They killed the bugler, Man!"

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

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.

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

Great story. Really enjoyed it.

Love this narration. Story is accurate

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Loved the images with the narrative

Thanks, Widwestfaces.

There was another long shooters that shot over 1,500 yards before Billy Dixon. They named a rifle after him. He was called Matthew Quigley.

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

About the dangling scalps. The Brits said the French taught the Indians. In the program entitled Centennial Jake Pasquenl says the white man taught the indians.

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

Dutch Henry? The horse thief?

I always heard that shot was done with a "rolling block" rifle, as opposed to a sharps.

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.

Good job!

7:14 Man in front on the left is built like a weight lifter 😮

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.

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

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