Forts of the West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forts of the West write by Robert Walter Frazer. This book was released on 1965. Forts of the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The number and variety of forts and posts, together with changes of location, name, and designation, have posed perplexing problems for students of western history. Now Robert W. Frazer has prepared a systematic listing of all presidios and military forts, which were ever, at any time and in any sense, so designated. The lists of posts are arranged alphabetically within the boundaries of present states. Pertinent information is included for each fort: date of establishment, location, and reason for establishment; name, rank, and military unit of the person establishing the post; origin of the post name and changes in name and location; present status or date of abandonment; and disposition of any existing military reservation. A map for each state shows the location of the posts discussed. A prime reference for historians, Forts of the West will prove useful to readers of western history as well.
Tour Guide to Old Western Forts
Tour Guide to Old Western Forts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tour Guide to Old Western Forts write by Herbert M. Hart. This book was released on 1980. Tour Guide to Old Western Forts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive guide to over one thousand forts, camps, and posts in the western United States; includes detailed historical background accompanied by more than 250 photos and drawings.
Old Forts of the Southwest
Old Forts of the Southwest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Forts of the Southwest write by Herbert M. Hart. This book was released on 1964. Old Forts of the Southwest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Author Hart finds the crumbling adobe walls of the western forts to be virtually permeated with these rapidly being forgotten memories, and extracts them with story and picture just in time to prevent them from returning to the dust from which they came."--Inside front dust cover.
Forts of the Northern Plains
Forts of the Northern Plains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forts of the Northern Plains write by Jeff Barnes. This book was released on 2008. Forts of the Northern Plains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An up-to-date guide to the critical forts of the Indian campaigns of the late 19th century. Recounts the integral role of 51 forts during the decades of warfare with the Plains Indian tribes and tells of the posts fates after the Indian wars, providing narrative vignettes of incidents or points of historical importance. It also provides directions and visitor information for the following states: Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming.
Frontier Forts of Iowa
Frontier Forts of Iowa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frontier Forts of Iowa write by William E. Whittaker. This book was released on 2009-09. Frontier Forts of Iowa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At least fifty-six frontier forts once stood in, or within view of, what is now the state of Iowa. The earliest date to the 1680s, while the latest date to the Dakota uprising of 1862. Some were vast compounds housing hundreds of soldiers; others consisted of a few sheds built by a trader along a riverbank. Regardless of their size and function—William Whittaker and his contributors include any compound that was historically called a fort, whether stockaded or not, as well as all military installations—all sought to control and manipulate Indians to the advantage of European and American traders, governments, and settlers. Frontier Forts of Iowa draws extensively upon the archaeological and historical records to document this era of transformation from the seventeenth-century fur trade until almost all Indians had been removed from the region. The earliest European-constructed forts along the Mississippi, Des Moines, and Missouri rivers fostered a complex relationship between Indians and early traders. After the Louisiana Purchase of 1804, American military forts emerged in the Upper Midwest, defending the newly claimed territories from foreign armies, foreign traders, and foreign-supported Indians. After the War of 1812, new forts were built to control Indians until they could be moved out of the way of American settlers; forts of this period, which made extensive use of roads and trails, teamed a military presence with an Indian agent who negotiated treaties and regulated trade. The final phase of fort construction in Iowa occurred in response to the Spirit Lake massacre and the Dakota uprising; the complete removal of the Dakota in 1863 marked the end of frontier forts in a state now almost completely settled by Euro-Americans. By focusing on the archaeological evidence produced by many years of excavations and by supporting their words with a wealth of maps and illustrations, the authors uncover the past and connect it with the real history of real places. In so doing they illuminate the complicated and dramatic history of the Upper Midwest in a time of enormous change. Past is linked to present in the form of a section on visiting original and reconstructed forts today. Contributors: Gayle F. Carlson Jeffrey T. Carr Lance M. Foster Kathryn E. M. Gourley Marshall B. McKusick Cindy L. Nagel David J. Nolan Cynthia L. Peterson Leah D. Rogers Regena Jo Schantz Christopher M. Schoen Vicki L. Twinde-Javner William E. Whittaker
