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Standing in the Gap

Subposts, Minor Posts, and Picket Stations on the Texas Frontier

Autor: Loyd M. Uglow
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Vydavatel: Texas Christian University Press,U.S.
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 14-21 dnů
508 Kč
After the Civil War, the United States Army faced a tremendous challenge on the Texas frontier. Mili...

Informace o knize

Autor
Loyd M. Uglow
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2001
Stránek
326
EAN
9780875652467
ISBN
9780875652467
Enbook ID
06379487
Vydavatel
Texas Christian University Press,U.S.
Hmotnost
499
Rozměry
160 x 236 x 25

Kompletní popis

After the Civil War, the United States Army faced a tremendous challenge on the Texas frontier. Military authorities had to overcome major obstacles in mobility and communications, and they had to learn a far different kind of warfare to defeat the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians.Large military posts have been examined in detail in numerous books written about the Texas frontier, but the importance of smaller outposts and picket stations has been generally overlooked. In Standing in the Gap, Loyd M. Uglow examines these smaller outposts in relation to the larger forts that controlled them and explores their significance in military strategy and the pacification of the frontier. The army's role in the settlement of West Texas has been, until now, explained through biographies of prominent officers and histories of both Indian campaigns and the larger forts. With only passing mention of outposts such as Grierson's Spring, Van Horn's Wells, and Pecos Station in these texts, the stories of picket posts have gone, for the most part, untold.Relying on sources such as archival records of the commanding forts, newspapers, and letters and journals, Uglow describes the reasons for establishing and deactivating approximately seventy outposts, as well as detailing their functions, contributions, accomplishments, inhabitants, and overall importance in populating the frontier.

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