Texas Historic Forts: Fort Griffin
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Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: B. W. Aston
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1574410350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA travel guide to the Texas Forts Trail, providing historical background on each of the eight forts along the route, and including information for tourists on independent motels, inns, and restaurants, as well as listings of festivals, specialty shops, and other points of interest.
Author: Joan Usner Salvant
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this fascinating book, artist J. U. Salvant and writer Robert M. Utley join their considerable talent to produce that rare volume: a book as lovely as it is accurate and as readable as it is informative. The artist's graceful watercolors afford glimpses of ten key military posts that kept watch over the westward-advancing frontier of Texas during the pioneer decades of the nineteenth century.
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of Texas at Austin. School of Architecture
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Published: 1968
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bill O'Neal
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467128597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith its vast size and long frontier period, Texas was the scene of more combat events between Native American warriors and Anglo soldiers and settlers than any other state or territory. The US Army, therefore, erected more military outposts in Texas, a tradition begun by Spanish soldados and their presidios. Settlers built blockhouses and even stockades, the most famous of which was Parker's Fort, the site of an infamous massacre in 1836. Successive north to south lines of Army forts attempted to screen westward-moving settlers from war parties, while border posts stretched along the Rio Grande from Fort Brown on the Gulf of Mexico to Fort Bliss at El Paso del Norte. Texas was the site of the first US Cavalry regiment employed against horseback warriors, as well as the experimental US Camel Corps. From Robert E. Lee to Albert Sidney Johnston to Ranald Mackenzie, the Army's finest officers served out of Texas forts, and 61 Medals of Honor were earned by soldiers campaigning in the Lone Star State.
Author: Richard F. Selcer
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0875651461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an excellent history of Fort Worth, Texas. Founded in 1849 as an army outpost in what was then the western frontier of Texas. The soldiers were there to protect settlers. The book features original architectural drawings of what the original fort probably looked like. The illustrator researched the fort through the National Archives and other records and came up with artist's views of the frontier outpost. The accompanying text explains the history of the fort and how it grew into one of the country's great cities.
Author: Elaine Coleman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-09-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1493032461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe forts of Texas, once teeming with soldiers, settlers and Native Americans, today stand like silent sentinels, abandoned to the ravages of sun, wind, and time. Their legends and stories are ghostly reminders of a past steeped in violence and tragic loss. Tales of Indians wrapped in buffalo robes and a ghostly lady delivering white roses to an officer's desk are woven with historical facts, placing the reader in the midst of the action. Photographs of these historic places send the reader back in time as haunted souls of long-lost legends fill the pages.
Author: Carl Coke Rister
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780806119816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fort, established in 1867 near the Llano Estacado, in the heart of the Comanche country, was the capital for buffalo hunters, cowboys, and ranchers, until 1880.
Author: Thomas Ty Smith
Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781625110602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA classic work in Texas military history, The Old Army in Texas is now available in paperback with a new foreword by Robert Wooster. U.S. Army officer and historian Thomas "Ty" Smith presents a comprehensive and authoritative single-source reference for the activities of the regular army in the Lone Star State during the nineteenth century. Beginning with a series of maps that sketch the evolution of fort locations on the frontier, Smith furnishes an overview with his introductory essay. The second part of this guide lists the departmental commanders, the location of the military headquarters, and the changes in the administrative organization and military titles for Texas. Part III provides a dictionary of 223 posts, forts, and camps in the state. The fourth part gives a year by year snapshot of total army strength in the state, the regiments assigned, and the garrisons and commanders of each major fort and camp. Supplying the only such synopsis of its kind, the guide's Part V offers a chronological description of 224 U.S. Army combat actions in the Indian Wars with vivid details of each engagement. The 900 entries in the selected bibliography of Part VI are divided topically into sections on biographical sources and regimental histories, histories of forts, garrison life, civil-military relations, the Mexican War, and frontier operations. The Old Army in Texas is an indispensable reference and research tool for students, scholars, and military history aficionados. It will be of great value to those interested in Texas history, especially military history and local and regional studies. This superb reference work is illustrated with a number of maps and rare photographs of the U.S. Army in nineteenth century Texas.