FORT DAVIS
History of Fort Davis, Texas
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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LIST OF MAPS

1 THE SETTING

2 OUTPOST ON THE LIMPIA

3 HAZARDS OF LIFE IN THE FIELD

4 DAVIS AS A FRONTIER OUTPOST

5 THE CIVIL WAR YEARS

6 REESTABLISHING THE FEDERAL PRESENCE

7 FORT DAVIS AND THE INDIAN WARS

8 SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS

9 THE GRIERSON ERA

10 THE LAST YEARS OF FEDERAL OCCUPATION

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY



LIST OF MAPS

1:1 The Indians of the Trans-Pecos

1:2 Spanish and American Defense of the Trans-Pecos

2:3 Federal Forts in Texas, 1848-1861

3:4 Campaigns in the Trans-Pecos, 1850s

6:5 Federal Forts in Texas, 1866-1890

7:6 Fort Davis and the Indian Wars

9:7 The Grierson Era

Note: All maps are in PDF format.

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A revised edition of this document has been published as Frontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West, by the Texas A & M University Press (2006).


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