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The Texas Panhandle Frontier (Paperback, Revised edition)
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The Texas Panhandle Frontier (Paperback, Revised edition)
Series: Double Mountain Books Series
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Discovery Miles 4 570
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'An outstanding contribution to the historiography of the American
West and likely will remain for a long time the definitive work on
the Texas Panhandle' - Ernest Wallace. 'As one born in the region,
Rathjen is sympathetic to it, but he is also understanding of it;
there is little Chamber of Commerce stuff in his story' - Robert G.
Athearn. The Texas Panhandleits eastern edge descending sharply
from the plains into the canyons of Palo Duro, Tule, Quitaque, Casa
Blanca, and Yellow House is as rich in history as it is in natural
beauty. Long considered a crossroads of ancient civilizations, the
twenty-six northernmost Texas counties lie on the southern reaches
of the Great Plains, where numerous dry creek beds and the Canadian
River have carved the region appropriately named the High Plains.
Through these plains and their canyons, ancient peoples trailed
game for the hunt. The Panhandle provided choice grazing lands for
bison, and as the region became more familiar to ancient tribes,
semipermanent camps marked the landscape. Yet when Coronado's
conquistadores crossed the High Plains in search of fabled wealth
and found sun-baked adobe instead of gold, they declared the region
a wasteland. Likewise, the Republic of Texas found little use for
their vast plains land considering settlement of the frontier far
too dangerous. Not until the late-nineteenth century, as the U.S.
Army waged war on the Comanches, Kiowas, and Cheyennes who lived
there, did Panhandle tracts of frontier open to hard-bitten
settlers who had to prove themselves as indomitable as they were
land hungry. Departing from the premise that the Panhandle frontier
'is but a brush stroke on...[the] much larger canvas' of previous
frontier histories, Rathjen challenges the work of Frederick
Jackson Turner and Walter Prescott Webb, and proves that regional
is by no means synonymous with provincial.
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