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Southern Arizona Military Outposts (Paperback)
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Southern Arizona Military Outposts (Paperback)
Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
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In the 1840s, the powerful pull of Manifest Destiny brought the
U.S. Army to today's southern Arizona. The first forces came as a
vanguard marching westward to conquer California, but soon their
comrades returned. They would establish a string of outposts, a few
of which remain more than a century after their founding. These
installations greatly contributed to local military, economic,
social, and even political history. Their inhabitants included
noted 19th-century generals George Crook and Nelson A. Miles, as
well as a later officer, Omar Bradley of World War II fame. Some of
these men brought their families to share the often lonely,
monotonous existence of life at a frontier fort. Occasionally their
routine was broken by grueling field service that more than once
sent troops southward on to Mexican soil where they suffered and
sometimes died. Among these stalwarts were buffalo soldiers, Indian
scouts, and new arrivals fresh from Europe.
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