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Author Wooster, Robert, 1956-

Title Frontier crossroads : Fort Davis and the West / Robert Wooster
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Canseco-Keck history series ; no. 7
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-200) and index
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Subject United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT United States. Army fast
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas -- Fort Davis (Fort)
Community life -- Texas -- Fort Davis (Fort)
Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Community life
Frontier and pioneer life
Manners and customs
Race relations
Armed Forces -- Military life
SUBJECT Fort Davis (Tex. : Fort) -- History
Texas -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Texas -- Race relations
Subject Texas
Texas -- Fort Davis (Fort)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005016482
ISBN 9781603445481
160344548X
1299052789
9781299052789