A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887

A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887
ISBN-10
0806128550
ISBN-13
9780806128559
Category
History
Pages
388
Language
English
Published
1997-01-01
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Author
Ty Cashion

Description

diversification to form a ranching-based social and economic way of life. The process turned a largely southern people into westerners. Others helped shape the history of the Clear Fork country as well. Notable among them were Anglo men and women - some of them earnest settlers, others unscrupulous opportunists - who followed the first pioneers; Indians of various tribes who claimed the land as their own or who were forcibly settled there by the white government; and.

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