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 picket posts have gone, for the most part,
untold.
Relying on sources such as 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.
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