Week 48: November/December
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11/26… 1853
William B. “Bat” Masterson; born in County Rouville, Quebec, Canada: Lawman, Gunfighter, Sports Writer. {001}
1864
The First Battle of Adobe Walls, (Hutchinson County) TX. Col. Christopher ‘Kit’ Carson in command of the First Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, leads a punitive expedition against Indian winter encampments in retaliation for Indian raids on wagon trains on the Santa Fe Trail. After attacking a Kiowa village, the troopers pressed on to the site of Bent’s old fort at Adobe Walls. Perhaps only saved by the presence of Lt. George Pettis’s mountain howitzers, the expedition of less than 500 men beats a successful retreat after determining that they face a combined force of as many as
