Texas' Last Frontier
Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos, 1861-1895
For almost three hundred miles, the Pecos River cuts across far West Texas. It is an arid land, a land that in the last century offered danger and hardship to those who crossed it and those who settled it. Yet they came--army posts like Fort Stockton to challenge the Apaches' claim to the rugged land, settlers to supply the posts, cattlemen to eke out a living from the vast but sparse grazing ranges. They came and they stayed because the land held one overriding appeal: it was Texas' last frontier. The newcomers--cattlemen and sheepmen, individuals and corporations--included sturdy, law-abiding, industrious citizens, such as O.W. Williams, a…
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Weitere Autoren: Wallace, Ernest (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-58544-071-9
- EAN: 9781585440719
- Produktnummer: 9516802
- Verlag: Texas A&M University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1982
- Seitenangabe: 492 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.8 cm 749 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 749
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