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Frontier Texas - History of a Borderland to 1880 (Paperback)
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Frontier Texas - History of a Borderland to 1880 (Paperback)
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The West Texas frontier-the area encompassing the region stretching
from Fort Worth to the Caprock, from Palo Duro Canyon to the San
Saba River-has been a crossroads of humanity for thousands of
years. Each group of humans who trekked across its sun-drenched
prairies had to contend with the challenges of life in an area that
has always been a climatic, geographical, political, and cultural
borderland. In addressing these challenges, the people of the
frontier developed perseverance, toughness, and determination-all
necessities for life on the Texas frontier. This book tells the
epic story of this region and its many transitions throughout the
centuries. It traces the struggles and triumphs of many groups as
they tried to tame the region for their own purposes. Early humans
hunted mammoths and other game in the region. Then came the Jumanos
following the great bison herds, then the Apaches, the Comanches,
the Spaniards, and the Texans. By 1845, with Texas' entrance into
the United States, more formal efforts to tame the frontier brought
forts and soldiers. Cattlemen and their herds shared the plains
with the buffalo and the Plains Indians. Battles and ambushes,
justice and injustice defined the struggle for the next several
decades. The military abandoned the region during the Civil War,
only to return with force upon its completion. The vast postwar
expansion of the cattle industry and the systematic slaughter of
the buffalo herds ensured that Americans would claim the region
permanently and that the Plains Indians' dominance of the frontier
had come to an end. By 1880 barbed wire, windmills, railroads, and
towns demonstrated that the frontier had been permanently
transformed.
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