Frontier crossroads : Fort Davis and the West / Robert Wooster.

ISBN:

9781603445481

Title:

Author:

Wooster, Robert, 1956-

Personal Author:

Wooster, Robert, 1956-

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Series:

Canseco-Keck history series ; no. 7

Contents:

Crossroads of empire -- Agent of empire : the U.S. Army -- Frontier outpost -- Implementation of empire -- Crisis of empire -- Return to the frontier -- Frontier duties -- Frontier empire -- The close of the military frontier -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. The garrison strength at Fort Davis -- Appendix 2. Ethnic composition of civilians at Fort Davis.

Local Note:

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Corporate Subject:

United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century.

Subject Term:

Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- Fort Davis (Fort)

Community life -- Texas -- Fort Davis (Fort)

Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.

Geographic Term:

Fort Davis (Tex. : Fort) -- History.

Texas -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

Texas -- Race relations.