In this innovative history, Patricia Evridge Hill explores the building of Dallas in the years before business interests rose to such prominence (1880 to 1940) and discovers that many groups contributed to the development of the modern city ...
... Dalla , a black man . of great stature and might , a hunter , who slew elephants with his stick , and carried them on his head about nine miles . Dalla was of unknown race , but came to this land , and built a house on Dalla hill ...
... Dalla Hill 10 00 Manning , Bill 50 00 Harris , W. , and Chas . Atkins 10 00 Plinter , Bennie Lee and S. 10 00 Waring , J. H. 10 00 Waterfield , Otis 10 00 Fishing License , April , 1916 . Amount Received from Fines , February , 1916 ...
... Dalla , 1 a black man of great stature and might , a hunter , who slew elephants with his stick and carried them on his head about nine miles . Dalla was of unknown race , but came to this land , and built a house on Dalla hill . There ...
... Dalla Hill , where Sir John Lawrence in 1846 led the only military expedition in which he was ever personally engaged . This was an attack upon a rebel named Ram Singh , and the place has become memorable from the fact that two officers ...
... Dalla Hill . The roofs are made of mud rein- forced by the fronds of fan - palms . Three culture groups are found in the walled city . The Fulani dominate the southern portion near the palace , the Haussa the north , and the Yoruba the ...
... Dalla's family ruled over more of a settlement than a city. His grandson Barbushe was the high priest of Tsuburbura and lived on Dalla Hill in the god's shrine, centered around the Shamus Tree. Barbushe came out of the shrine only two ...
... Dalla Hill, where powerful spirits were thought to dwell. Dalla towers over the vicinity, a fertile and today extremely densely settled area. Nearby are particularly rich sources of iron ore. Much agricultural land was enclosed within ...
... Dalla Hill Kogon Dusti Hill O. 8.17 The Hausa city states developed in the region between the empires of Mali and Kanem Borno . They were well placed to trade with the forest zone to the south and were linked by trans - desert routes to ...