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Carson’s Cannons Win the Day

by | Jun 17, 2014 | Uncategorized

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The First Battle of Adobe Walls, in 1864, was a sort of full-dress rehearsal for the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. At the former, Col. Kit Carson and a force of 400 attacked the winter camps of mostly Kiowas and Comanches and found himself facing as many as 3,000 Indians. If not for his two cannons, which fired exploding shells and spooked the Indians, his column would almost certainly have been destroyed. Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls: A Tale of Two Journeys (Texas Tech


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