Texas' Last Frontier: Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos, 1861-1895

By Clayton W. Williams

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158544071X
• ISBN13: 9781585440719
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 9.0"