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Author : Chris Emmett
Publisher : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780598239112
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Fort Union and the Winning of the Southwest written by Chris Emmett and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Emmett
Publisher : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806106380
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Fort Union and the Winning of the Southwest written by Chris Emmett and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eveline M. Alexander
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890963364
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Cavalry Wife written by Eveline M. Alexander and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1987-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo E. Oliva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest written by Leo E. Oliva and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Fort Union National Monument (N.M.), Interpretive Prospectus (1967) B1; Statement for Management (1976) B2; Annual Statement for Interpretation and Visitor Services B3; Third Fort Union, Historic Structure Report and Historical Data Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Bailey Blackshear
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080615425X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Fort Bascom written by James Bailey Blackshear and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motorists traveling along State Highway 104 north of Tucumcari, New Mexico, may notice a sign indicating the location of Fort Bascom. The post itself is long gone, its adobe walls washed away. In 1863, the United States, fearing a second Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory from Texas, built Fort Bascom. Until 1874, the troops stationed at this site on the Eroded Plains along the Canadian River defended Hispanic and Anglo-American settlements in eastern New Mexico and far western Texas against Comanches and other Southern Plains Indians. In Fort Bascom, James Bailey Blackshear presents the definitive history of this critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view of army life on the late-nineteenth-century western frontier. Located in the middle of what General William T. Sherman called “an awful country,” Fort Bascom’s hardships went beyond the army’s efforts to control the Comanches and Kiowas. Blackshear shows the difficulties of maintaining a post in a harsh environment where scarce water and forage, long supply lines, poorly constructed facilities, and monotonous duty tested soldiers’ endurance. Fort Bascom also describes the social aspects of a frontier assignment and the impact of the Comanchero trade on military personnel and objectives, showing just how difficult it was for the army to subdue the Southern Plains Indians. Crucial to this enterprise were logistics, including procurement from civilian contractors of everything from beef to hay. Blackshear examines the strong links between New Mexican Comancheros and Comanches, detailing how the lure of illegal profits drew former military personnel into this black-market economy and revealing the influence of the Comanchero trade on Southwestern history. This first full account of the unique challenges soldiers faced on the Texas frontier during and after the Civil War restores Fort Bascom to its rightful place in the history of the U.S. military and of U.S.-Indian relations in the American Southwest.
Author : Philip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811749630
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Cathy Williams written by Philip Thomas Tucker and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in the United States military have received more recognition than ever in recent years, but women also played vital roles in battles and campaigns of previous generations. Cathy Williams served as Pvt. William Cathay from 1866 to 1868 with the famed Buffalo Soldiers who patrolled the 900-mile Santa Fe Trail. Tucker traces her life from her birth as a slave near Independence, Missouri, to her service in Company A, 38th U.S. Infantry, one of the six black units formed following the Civil War. Cathy Williams remains the only known African American woman to have served as a Buffalo Soldier in the Indian Wars. Her remarkable story continues to represent a triumph of the human spirit.
Author : Maurice M. Dixon, Jr.
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806152605
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Artistic Odyssey of Higinio V. Gonzales written by Maurice M. Dixon, Jr. and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higinio V. Gonzales (1842–1921) was more than a gifted metalworker. A man of varied talents whose poems and songs complement his work in punched tin, Gonzales transcends categorization. In The Artistic Odyssey of Higinio V. Gonzales, Maurice M. Dixon, Jr., who has spent more than thirty years studying New Mexico tinwork, describes the artist’s signature techniques. Featuring translations of Gonzales’s poetry, this book restores a long-forgotten New Mexican innovator to the prominence he deserves. Recounting the scholarly detective work that revealed the full scope of Gonzales’s art and career, Dixon tells the story of a craftsman who was also a poet. He begins with Gonzales’s first signed literary work, a handwritten birthday poem decorated with beautifully drawn flowers and birds, dated 1889, and then pieces together the artist’s life and career. Through meticulous research into manuscripts and the dates of tin cans that Gonzales repurposed into elegant, fanciful frames, niches, sconces, and religious decorations, Dixon identifies as Gonzales’s numerous pieces of poetry and tinwork once attributed to anonymous poets and artists. His most important discovery served as a Rosetta stone: an ink wash and watercolor drawing in an ornamental tin frame (housed at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos), whose documented provenance helped Dixon to identify Gonzales’s other artwork. More than 100 color photographs of Gonzales’s tinwork and more than a dozen translations of the artist’s poetic and musical works punctuate the narrative. Both a catalogue raisonné of a hitherto little-known artist and an anthology of his writings, this book reconstructs the creative life of a long-overlooked talent, one whose quest for beauty resulted in a prolific body of art and literature.
Author : Jerry D. Thompson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603447032
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Civil War in the Southwest written by Jerry D. Thompson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written "to set the record straight," these veterans' stories provide colorful accounts of the bloody battles of Valverde, Glorieta, and Peralta, as well as details fo the soldier's tragic and painful retreat back to Texas in the summer of 1862.
Author : Gregory F Michno
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806159448
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Depredation and Deceit written by Gregory F Michno and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress between 1796 and 1834 set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the federal government for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. By the end of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and Nuevomexicanos became experts in exploiting this system—and in using the army to collect on their often-fraudulent claims. As Gregory F. Michno reveals in Depredation and Deceit, their combined efforts created a precarious mix of false accusations, public greed, and fabricated fear that directly led to new wars in the American Southwest between 1849 and 1855. Tasked with responding to white settlers’ depredation claims and gaining restitution directly from Indian groups, soldiers typically had no choice but to search out often-innocent Indians and demand compensation or the surrender of the guilty party, turning once-friendly bands into enemy groups whenever these tense encounters exploded in violence. As the situation became more volatile, citizens demanded a greater army presence in the region, and lucrative military contracts became yet another reason to encourage the continuation of frontier violence. Although the records are replete with officers questioning accusations and discovering civilians’ deceit, more often than not the army was forced to act in direct counterpoint to its duties as a constabulary force. And whenever war broke out, the acquisition of more Indian land and wealth began the cycle of greed and violence all over again. The Trade and Intercourse Acts were manipulated by Anglo-Americans who ensured the continuation of the very conflicts that they claimed to abhor and that the acts were designed to prevent. In bringing these machinations to light, Michno’s book deepens—and darkens—our understanding of the conquest of the American Southwest.
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Confederate Victories in the Southwest written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are all the first-hand reports on the Confederate occupation of Mesilla, the Battle of Valverde, fall of Socorro, the occupation of Albuquerque, and the capture of Santa Fe. A truly memorable volume for the student, collector, and all who take pride in the long and colorful history of New Mexico.
Author : U. S. National Park Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781983069802
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Fort Union written by U. S. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ruins of Fort Union graphically commemorate the achievements of the men who won the West. Located on the route of the Santa Fe Trail where the mountains meet the plains, the fort is centered in a region full of historic events and brimming with the romance of the frontier. As a base of operations for both military and civilian ventures in New Mexico for 40 years, from 1851 to 1891, during the settlement of the west, through the civil war and the Indian wars, Fort Union played a key role in shaping the destiny of the Southwest.
Author : United States Air Force Academy. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Special Bibliography Series written by United States Air Force Academy. Library and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Special Bibliography Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272965
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Covered Wagon Women: 1854-1860 written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the women traveling west in the late 1850s were strong advocates of equal rights for their sex. On the trail, Julia Archibald Holmes and Hannah Keziah Clapp sensibly wore the “freedom costume” called bloomers. In 1858 Holmes joined the Pikes Peak gold rush and was the first woman of record to climb the famous mountain. Educator Hannah Clapp traveled to California with a revolver by her side, speaking her mind in a letter included in this volume, which is also enriched by the trail diaries of seven other women. Among them were Sarah Sutton, who died in 1854, just before reaching Oregon’s Willamette Valley; Sarah Maria Mousley, a Mormon woman traveling to Utah in 1857; and Martha Missouri Moore, who drove thousands of sheep from Missouri to California with her husband in 1860.
Author : Thomas W. Dunlay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803217157
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Kit Carson and the Indians written by Thomas W. Dunlay and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson has become in recent years a historical pariah--a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, and an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist. Many historians now question both his reputation and his place in the pantheon of American heroes. Here we are urged to reconsider Carson yet again. Carson was a man of the nineteenth century, whose racial views and actions were much like those of his contemporaries.
Author : Jerry D. Thompson
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826355684
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia written by Jerry D. Thompson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War in New Mexico began in 1861 with the Confederate invasion and occupation of the Mesilla Valley. At the same time, small villages and towns in New Mexico Territory faced raids from Navajos and Apaches. In response the commander of the Department of New Mexico Colonel Edward Canby and Governor Henry Connelly recruited what became the First and Second New Mexico Volunteer Infantry. In this book leading Civil War historian Jerry Thompson tells their story for the first time, along with the history of a third regiment of Mounted Infantry and several companies in a fourth regiment. Thompson’s focus is on the Confederate invasion of 1861–1862 and its effects, especially the bloody Battle of Valverde. The emphasis is on how the volunteer companies were raised; who led them; how they were organized, armed, and equipped; what they endured off the battlefield; how they adapted to military life; and their interactions with New Mexico citizens and various hostile Indian groups, including raiding by deserters and outlaws. Thompson draws on service records and numerous other archival sources that few earlier scholars have seen. His thorough accounting will be a gold mine for historians and genealogists, especially the appendix, which lists the names of all volunteers and militia men.
