Along the Texas Forts Trail
The task of providing military defense for the Texas Frontier was never an easy one because the territory was claimed by some of the greatest querrilla fighters of all times-the Comanches, Kiowas, Apaches, and Lipans. Protecting a line running from the Red River southwest to El Paso was an impossible task, but following the Mexican War the federal government attempted to do so by establishing a line of forts. During the Civil War the forts were virtually abandoned and the Indians once again ruled the area. Following the war when the military began to restore the old forts, they found that the Indians no longer fought with bows and arrows but…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Taylor, Ira Donathan / Taylor, Donathan
- ISBN: 978-1-57441-035-8
- EAN: 9781574410358
- Produktnummer: 9012656
- Verlag: University Of North Texas Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 276 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 276
Über den Autor
B.W. Aston is chairman of the History Department and director of the Rupert N. Richardson Research Center at Hardin-Simmons University. Donathan Taylor is Associate Professor of History at Hardin-Simmons University
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