Download or read book Texas Historic Forts Fort McKavett written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Along the Texas Forts Trail written by B. W. Aston and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book If These Walls Could Speak written by Joan Usner Salvant and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Fort McKavett written by Jerry M. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Frontier Forts of Texas written by Bill O'Neal and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Texas Historic Forts written by University of Texas at Austin. School of Architecture and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fort McKavett Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Texas Haunted Forts written by Elaine Coleman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Preservation Plan and Program for Fort McKavett State Historic Site written by Texas. Historic Sites and Restoration Branch and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bugle Call at Fort McKavett written by Eileen Mattei and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fort McKavett Fort Lancaster and Fort Griffin State Historic Sites written by Martha Doty Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fort McKavett State Historic Site written by Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phase V Development Plan and Program for Fort McKavett State Historic Site Menard County Texas written by Texas. Historic Sites and Restoration Branch and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Texas Historic Forts Fort Lancaster written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fort McKavett written by Clifford Caldwell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Hill Country is rich with history. In recent years revisionist historians have only written about a select few aspects of the region, apparently preferring to overlook the fact that outlaws, lawmen, Indians, horse soldiers and Spanish explorers crisscrossed the San Saba River and Menard County area for hundreds of years. True enough, the quaint shops and bistros, the music festivals, wildflowers, and the pleasing climate may be the attraction today but the area was home to Paleo-Indians 10,000 years ago. Spaniards trekked through the region in 1753, finding promise of gold and silver in the surrounding hills. Early Texas pioneers ultimately carved out a frontier settlement here, only to be menaced by hostile Comanche Indians, reluctant to release their hold on the region. Fort McKavett, the lonely outpost on the San Saba, played a vital part in the settlement of this area and in the rich military history of Texas. Join the author in rediscovering the fort, and Menard County.

Download or read book Texas Historic Forts Fort Richardson written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soldiers Sutlers and Settlers written by Robert Wooster and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.