Texas' Last Frontier

Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos, 1861-1895

• Author(s): Clayton Williams,
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Pages: 457
• ISBN_10: 0890961263
  ISBN_13: 9780890961261
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / General , History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) ,

Description:... For almost three hundred miles, the Pecos River cuts across far West Texas. It is an arid land, a land that in the last century offered danger and hardship to those who crossed it and those who settled it. Yet they came--army posts like Fort Stockton to challenge the Apaches' claim to the rugged land, settlers to supply the posts, cattlemen to eke out a living from the vast but sparse grazing ranges. They came and they stayed because the land held one overriding appeal: it was Texas' last frontier.