Frontier Forts Of Texas

Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fortification
ISBN : 9781467128599

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Frontier Forts of Texas by Bill O'Neal Pdf

With 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 : Press Texian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1966-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0872440036

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Frontier Forts of Texas by Press Texian Pdf

Author : Joan Usner Salvant,Robert M. Utley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037919334

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If These Walls Could Speak by Joan Usner Salvant,Robert M. Utley Pdf

In 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.

Author : Charles M. Robinson
Publisher : Gulf Publishing Company
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0884155978

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Frontier Forts of Texas by Charles M. Robinson Pdf

Recounts the establishment of the forts, major battles they were involved in, and the impact of some of the more famous persons who passed through including Ronald Mackenzie, Robert E. Lee, and Santa Anna.

Author : B. W. Aston,Ira Donathan Taylor
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 9781574410358

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Along the Texas Forts Trail by B. W. Aston,Ira Donathan Taylor Pdf

A 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 : Robert Wooster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012820273

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Soldiers, Sutlers, and Settlers by Robert Wooster Pdf

Texas' frontiers in the 1840s were buffeted by disputes with Mexico and attacks by Indian tribes who refused to give up their lifestyles to make way for new settlers. To ensure some measure of peace in the far reaches of Texas, the U.S. Army established a series of military forts in the state. These outposts varied in size and amenities, but the typical installation was staffed with officers, enlisted men, medical personnel, and civilian laundresses. Many soldiers brought their families to the frontier stations. While faced with the hardships of post life, wives and children helped create a more congenial environment for everyone. Book jacket.

Author : Elaine Coleman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493032464

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Texas Haunted Forts by Elaine Coleman Pdf

The 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 : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875651460

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The Fort that Became a City by Richard F. Selcer Pdf

This 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 : Jerry M. Sullivan,Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fort McKavett (Tex.)
ISBN : 0963676512

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Fort McKavett by Jerry M. Sullivan,Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department Pdf

This is a lively, historical accurate account of a line of forts established in Texas in the early 1850's. These forts were built to protect westward-expanding settlers from Indians desperately fighting to preserve their doomed buffalo hunting way of life.

Author : Robert F. Pace,Donald S. Frazier
Publisher : TX A&m-McWhiney Foundation
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1933337516

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Frontier Texas by Robert F. Pace,Donald S. Frazier Pdf

The West Texas frontier-the area encompassing the region stretching from Fort Worth to the Caprock, from Palo Duro Canyon to the San Saba River-has been a crossroads of humanity for thousands of years. Each group of humans who trekked across its sun-drenched prairies had to contend with the challenges of life in an area that has always been a climatic, geographical, political, and cultural borderland. In addressing these challenges, the people of the frontier developed perseverance, toughness, and determination-all necessities for life on the Texas frontier. This book tells the epic story of this region and its many transitions throughout the centuries. It traces the struggles and triumphs of many groups as they tried to tame the region for their own purposes. Early humans hunted mammoths and other game in the region. Then came the Jumanos following the great bison herds, then the Apaches, the Comanches, the Spaniards, and the Texans. By 1845, with Texas' entrance into the United States, more formal efforts to tame the frontier brought forts and soldiers. Cattlemen and their herds shared the plains with the buffalo and the Plains Indians. Battles and ambushes, justice and injustice defined the struggle for the next several decades. The military abandoned the region during the Civil War, only to return with force upon its completion. The vast postwar expansion of the cattle industry and the systematic slaughter of the buffalo herds ensured that Americans would claim the region permanently and that the Plains Indians' dominance of the frontier had come to an end. By 1880 barbed wire, windmills, railroads, and towns demonstrated that the frontier had been permanently transformed.

Author : Donna Blake Birchell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467140782

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Frontier Forts and Outposts of New Mexico by Donna Blake Birchell Pdf

Life in early New Mexico was often perilous. Geographic isolation attracted outlaws and ruffians, and skirmishes often arose between the indigenous tribes and settlers. In response, the U.S. government set up military forts and outposts to protect its new citizens. These strongholds include Fort Craig, where logs were made to look like cannons to fool Confederate troops. Kit Carson, John Pershing and Billy the Kid all called Fort Stanton home, before it became the first federal tuberculosis sanatorium and later a detention center for German prisoners of war. Author Donna Blake Birchell relates little-known yet highly important Civil War battles, the tragedies of the Navajo and Mescalero Apache internments and other dramatic frontier stories.

Author : Kenneth Mason
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0815330766

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African Americans and Race Relations in San Antonio, Texas, 1867-1937 by Kenneth Mason Pdf

This is a study of how paternal race relations in San Antonio contributed to the rise of accommodation-minded African American leaders whose successful manipulation of the political and ethnic divisions provided goods, services and sustained voting rights during a period when African Americans throughout the South had lost such privileges. The unique demography of Mexican-, German-, Anglo- and African Americans; a service based economy of hotels, restaurants and saloons; and campaigns by white civic leaders to make San Antonio the premier commercial and vacation center of the Southwest nurtured a political machine that intended "to keep blacks in their place". This resulted in an assortment of Jim Crow laws; restrictive employment opportunities; and segregated schools, parks, and municipal services; albeit without mob lynching and racial violence.This paternal brand of racism resulted in the rise of one of the most powerful black political bosses of his time, Charles Bellinger. Challenges fromconservative white reformers and disgruntled black civil rights advocates failed to dislodge the hold Bellinger's machine had on the black community and the city, until the Great Depression. By examining employment, education, politics, and socio-cultural activities that contributed to the city's unique race relations; the study takes a hard look at whether "separate but equal" ever become a reality in San Antonio.

Author : J. E. Kaufmann,H. W. Kaufmann
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306816345

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Fortress America by J. E. Kaufmann,H. W. Kaufmann Pdf

From the earliest colonial settlements to Cold War bunkers, the North American continent has been home to thousands of forts and fortress structures. Fortress America surveys the broad sweep of fortifications throughout North America-from seacoast forts of the late eighteenth century to wooden inland forts built to defend against Native American, English, French, or Spanish attack; from Civil War-era coastal and inland waterways forts to the Great Plains' forts of the Old West; from World War II subterranean bunkers to Cold War concrete missile silos. The text of Fortress America is complemented with never-before-published photographs, and extraordinary drawings, cut-aways, and diagrams illustrating the design and structure of American forts.

Author : Lawrence John Francell
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048928124

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Fort Lancaster by Lawrence John Francell Pdf

One of the least know and most isolated of the frontier forts, Fort Lancaster during its brief existence (1855 to 1861) had the vital mission of guarding the road across Texas to California, and did this with foot soldiers and without a nearby civilian community. This is the story of survival on the early frontier of Texas.

Author : Thomas E. Alexander,Dan K. Utley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781603447539

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Faded Glory by Thomas E. Alexander,Dan K. Utley Pdf

Each of the wars fought by Texans spawned the creation of scores of military sites across the state, from the lonely frontier outpost at Adobe Walls to the once-bustling World War II shipyards of Orange. Today, although vestiges of the sites still exist, many are barely discernible, their once-proud martial trappings now faded by time, neglect, the elements and, most of all, public apathy. ?In Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley revisit twenty-nine sites—many of them largely forgotten—associated with what was arguably the most tumultuous hundred-year period in a five-century span of Texas history.? Whether in the war with Mexico, the American Civil War, in clashes between Indians and the frontier army, or in two worldwide conflicts fought on foreign shores, Texas and Texans have often answered the call to arms. Beginning in 1845 and continuing through 1945, the Lone Star State and its people were fully involved in seven major conflicts. ?In this thoroughly researched and absorbing guide, Alexander and Utley recount the full story of the sites from their days of fame to the present. Comparing historic sketches, paintings, and period photographs of the original installations with recent photographs, they illustrate how time has dealt with these important places. Providing maps to aid readers in locating each site, the authors close with a resounding call for preservation and interpretation for future generations. ?The descriptions and images restore, at least in the mind’s eye, a touch of vitality and color to these forgotten and disappearing sites. Thanks to Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, both the traveler and the armchair tourist can recover a sense of these places and events that did so much to shape the military history of Texas.