Old Fort Davis

Author : Barry Scobee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fort Davis (Tex. : Fort)
ISBN : OCLC:14927862

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Old Fort Davis by Barry Scobee Pdf

Author : Barry Scobee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436711339

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Old Fort Davis by Barry Scobee Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Robert Wooster
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625110084

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Fort Davis by Robert Wooster Pdf

This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one of the U.S. Army's most important western posts, relates the exciting history of Trans-Pecos Texas—the far western reaches off the state. Wooster traces the history of this Davis Mountains region from the days when Indians and later Spaniards and Mexicans inhabited the area, through its days as the site of Texan and American interests. The establishment and construction of Fort Davis in the mid-1850s tells the story of one of the army's largest western posts. We learn about the famous army camels which Secretary of War Jefferson Davis brought to the area, with Fort Davis serving as a base of operations, and about the difficult conditions imposed on the army by weather, climate, and Indians, Evacuated by the U.S. Army at the beginning of the Civil War, Fort Davis later was occupied by Texas state troops, then briefly reoccupied by the Federals. After the war, the War Department began shifting regular army units back to the western frontiers. Among these units were each of the famous black regiments, many of them composed of former slaves who proved to be excellent soldiers. The details of daily life—food, clothing, social activities, weapons, medical care—are thoroughly discussed, as are the often ineffective campaigns against Indians. Robert Wooster skillfully uses the forty-year history of Fort Davis to provide a clear window into the frontier military experience and into nineteenth-century American society. Because of its black soldiers, and its large Mexican-American civilian community, Fort Davis is a prime resource for studying and understanding the stratified racial relations which accompanied the army's and the nation's westward expansion.

Author : Robert Wooster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : MINN:31951003038667B

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History of Fort Davis, Texas by Robert Wooster Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Park Service
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : PURD:32754067979769

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Forts of Old San Juan by Anonim Pdf

Tells the story of the evolution of the defenses of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the role they played in helping to safeguard Spanish possessions in the Caribbean from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007640308

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Water-supply Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1676 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : UOM:39015001484651

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Water-supply Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Robert Wooster
Publisher : Canseco-Keck History
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063652591

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Frontier Crossroads by Robert Wooster Pdf

"Frontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West schools its readers in the daily lives of soldiers, their dependents, and civilians at the fort and in the surrounding area. The resulting history of the intriguing blend of Hispanic, Black, Anglo, and European immigrants who came to Fort Davis is a benchmark volume that will serve as the standard to which other post histories will be compared."--Jacket.

Author : Ephraim George Squier,Edwin Hamilton Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : History
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000048340

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Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley by Ephraim George Squier,Edwin Hamilton Davis Pdf

Author : Jerome A. Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Chalmette Unit, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (La.)
ISBN : UCR:31210024862185

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Historic Resource Study, Chalmette Unit, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve by Jerome A. Greene Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030163877

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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site General Management Plan (GMP), Development Concept Plan, Otero County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Apache Indians
ISBN : UIUC:30112104105124

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Fort Davis National Historic Site, Texas by Robert M. Utley Pdf

This publication is one of a series of handbooks describing the historical and archeological areas in the National Park System.

Author : Lydia Davis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374711436

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Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis Pdf

A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.

Author : Zenas Randall Bliss
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131696655

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The Reminiscences of Major General Zenas R. Bliss, 1854-1876 by Zenas Randall Bliss Pdf

The "Reminiscences" of Maj. Gen. Zenas R. Bliss are a remarkably detailed account of his army service in Texas before and after the Civil War. Many scholars consider Bliss's recollections to be one of the best from a soldier of the "Old Army." It has become a staple primary resource for Texas frontier research for the last three decades. Bliss's memoirs serve as a rare and important window into Texas' military, political, cultural, and geographical history. The memoirs cover Bliss's graduation at West Point in 1854, his antebellum service at Fort Duncan, Camp Hudson, and Fort Davis, as well as his return to the Texas frontier in 1870, and end with his duties at Fort Davis in 1876. Details also describe his capture by Texas Confederate forces in 1861, his tribulations as a prisoner of war, and his subsequent Civil War experiences as a Union regimental commander at Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, and Petersburg, where he was at the battle of the Crater. For gallantry at Fredericksburg, he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. While commanding buffalo soldiers at Fort Duncan in 1870, Bliss conceived the idea of enlisting Seminole-Negro Indians from Mexico as army scouts. After successfully lobbying the departmental commander and the War Department for approval, Bliss formed the first band of Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts in August of 1870. The unit served the army with extraordinary devotion and distinction until 1912. Bliss served in Texas longer than any other army officer (twenty-three years) and rose in rank from second lieutenant to departmental commander. Possessing a keen sense of humor, an eye for detail, and a boisterous social nature, his lively account of the people and places of the antebellum and post-Civil War Texas frontier is among the very best of Texas history.

Author : Dennis William Hauck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0142002348

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Haunted Places by Dennis William Hauck Pdf

Describes over 2,000 sites of supernatural occurances in the United States, including places visited by ghosts, UFOs, and unusual creatures.