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- catalog abstract ""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 minor posts have gone, for the most part, untold." "Relying on 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12375229.
- catalog coverage "Texas History, Military 19th century.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""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."".
- catalog description ""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 minor posts have gone, for the most part, untold."".
- catalog description ""Relying on 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Fort Stockton and Its Outposts -- 3. Fort Clark and Its Outposts -- 4. Fort McKavett and Its Outposts -- 5. Forts and Outposts of the Lower Rio Grande -- 6. Fort Richardson and Associated Posts -- 7. Fort Griffin, Its Outposts, and Supply Camps on the Staked Plains -- 8. Fort Elliott -- 9. Fort Concho and Its Outposts -- 10. Fort Davis and Its Outposts -- 11. Fort Quitman, Camp Pena Colorado, and Fort Hancock -- 12. Postscript.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 234 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Standing in the gap.".
- catalog identifier "0875652468 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Standing in the gap.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press,".
- catalog relation "Standing in the gap.".
- catalog spatial "Texas History, Military 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Texas".
- catalog spatial "Texas.".
- catalog subject "355.7/09764/09034 21".
- catalog subject "F391 .U39 2001".
- catalog subject "Fortification Texas History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Texas.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Wars 1866-1895.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Wars Texas.".
- catalog subject "United States. Army History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Fort Stockton and Its Outposts -- 3. Fort Clark and Its Outposts -- 4. Fort McKavett and Its Outposts -- 5. Forts and Outposts of the Lower Rio Grande -- 6. Fort Richardson and Associated Posts -- 7. Fort Griffin, Its Outposts, and Supply Camps on the Staked Plains -- 8. Fort Elliott -- 9. Fort Concho and Its Outposts -- 10. Fort Davis and Its Outposts -- 11. Fort Quitman, Camp Pena Colorado, and Fort Hancock -- 12. Postscript.".
- catalog title "Standing in the gap : army outposts, picket stations, and the pacification of the Texas frontier, 1866-1886 / Loyd M. Uglow.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Military history. fast".
- catalog type "text".