1874 era - Adobe Walls Area - Freighters killed attack and named in "Brave and the Bravest !" by Harvey H. Bowers the story of the heroics of Mrs. William Olds during the Indian attack led by Quanah on the Adobe Trading Post as published in this complete and rare old western magazine.
The first fatalities of the fighting were two white men, Ike and Shorty Shadler. Due to the oppressive heat they had decided to spend the night outside in their wagon. Keeping hidden in their wagon, under covers, they hoped to ride out the attack undiscovered. However the prying of a Comanche named Mihesuah sealed their doom. Killed and scalped, the Indians taunted those inside the Walls by remaining just outside of rifle range and dangling the Shadler brother's scalps.
When darkness of night set in, the men prepared to bury their dead. They dug a grave to the north of Myers & Leonard's store. They wrapped the Shadler brothers, Ike and "Shorty" in blankets and laid them side by side in the grave. Then Billy Tyler, blanket-wrapped, was carried from the store and laid beside the two brothers. while rough men offered silent prayers, the earth was smoothed above their common grave.
The first fatalities of the fighting were two white men, Ike and Shorty Shadler. Due to the oppressive heat they had decided to spend the night outside in their wagon. Keeping hidden in their wagon, under covers, they hoped to ride out the attack undiscovered. However the prying of a Comanche named Mihesuah sealed their doom. Killed and scalped, the Indians taunted those inside the Walls by remaining just outside of rifle range and dangling the Shadler brother's scalps.
When darkness of night set in, the men prepared to bury their dead. They dug a grave to the north of Myers & Leonard's store. They wrapped the Shadler brothers, Ike and "Shorty" in blankets and laid them side by side in the grave. Then Billy Tyler, blanket-wrapped, was carried from the store and laid beside the two brothers. while rough men offered silent prayers, the earth was smoothed above their common grave.
1874 era - Adobe Walls Area - Freighters killed attack and named in "Brave and the Bravest !" by Harvey H. Bowers the story of the heroics of Mrs. William Olds during the Indian attack led by Quanah on the Adobe Trading Post as published in this complete and rare old western magazine.
The first fatalities of the fighting were two white men, Ike and Shorty Shadler. Due to the oppressive heat they had decided to spend the night outside in their wagon. Keeping hidden in their wagon, under covers, they hoped to ride out the attack undiscovered. However the prying of a Comanche named Mihesuah sealed their doom. Killed and scalped, the Indians taunted those inside the Walls by remaining just outside of rifle range and dangling the Shadler brother's scalps.
When darkness of night set in, the men prepared to bury their dead. They dug a grave to the north of Myers & Leonard's store. They wrapped the Shadler brothers, Ike and "Shorty" in blankets and laid them side by side in the grave. Then Billy Tyler, blanket-wrapped, was carried from the store and laid beside the two brothers. while rough men offered silent prayers, the earth was smoothed above their common grave.
The first fatalities of the fighting were two white men, Ike and Shorty Shadler. Due to the oppressive heat they had decided to spend the night outside in their wagon. Keeping hidden in their wagon, under covers, they hoped to ride out the attack undiscovered. However the prying of a Comanche named Mihesuah sealed their doom. Killed and scalped, the Indians taunted those inside the Walls by remaining just outside of rifle range and dangling the Shadler brother's scalps.
When darkness of night set in, the men prepared to bury their dead. They dug a grave to the north of Myers & Leonard's store. They wrapped the Shadler brothers, Ike and "Shorty" in blankets and laid them side by side in the grave. Then Billy Tyler, blanket-wrapped, was carried from the store and laid beside the two brothers. while rough men offered silent prayers, the earth was smoothed above their common grave.
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Billy Tyler, Ike Shadler,
"Shorty" Shadler
Killed by Indians June 27, 1874
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