Credits & Sources
Fort Davis and the Trans Pecos Frontier was written by Steve Dial, Contributing Editor to Texas Beyond History (see Frontier Forts Supporters and Contributors).
Print Sources
Austerman, Wayne
1985 Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio-El Paso Mail,
1851-1881.
Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Cloud,William A., Robert Mallouf, Patricia Mercado-Allinger,
Catherine A. Hoyt, Nancy A. Kenmotsu, Joseph M. Sanchez, and Enrique Madrid
1994 Archeological Testing at the Polvo Site, Presidio County, Texas.
Office of the State Archeologist Report 39, Texas Historical Commission,
and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service.
Fehrenbach, T.R.
1968 Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. Collier Books,
New York, paperback edition 1980.
1979 Comanches: The Destruction of a People. Alfred A. Knopf, New
York.
Gregg, Josiah
1926 The Commerce of the Prairies. Lakeside Press, Chicago; University
of Nebraska Press Bison Book edition, 1967
Kenner, Charles L.
1969 The Comanchero Frontier: A History of New Mexican-Plains Indian
Relations.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, paperback edition 1994.
Leckie, William H.
1967 The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the
West. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
Lee, Arthur T.
1871 Reminiscences of the Regiment. In History of the Eighth U.S. Infantry
edited by Thomas Wilhelm. New York.
Newcomb, W. W., Jr.
1961 The Indians of Texas. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Smith, Thomas T.
2000 The Old Army in Texas: A Research Guide to the U.S. Army in Nineteenth
Century Texas. Texas State Historical Association.
Thomas, W. Stephen
1976 Fort Davis and the Texas Frontier: Paintings by Captain Arthur
T. Lee, Eighth U.S. Infantry. Texas A&M Press, College Station.
Utley, Robert M.
1965 Fort Davis National Historic Site, Texas. United States Department
of the Interior, National Park Service.
Wallace, Ernest, and E. Adamson Hoebel
1952 The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains. University of Oklahoma
Press, Norman, paperback edition 1986.
Weber, David J.
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Wooster, Robert
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Links
Additional information on the history and forts of Trans Pecos can be found online at:
Fort Davis National Historic Site
A wealth of information
on the fort, Buffalo Soldiers, and history of the fort written by military
historian Robert Utley. There are also resources for children and information
on travel and events.
Fort Lancaster State Historic Site
Information on historic
reenactment, interpretation, preservation, and history of the fort.
Website of Historic Fort Stockton.
The Handbook of Texas Online
contains entries on related topics including:
Black Seminole Indian Scouts
Bullis, John Lapham
Butterfield Overland Mail
Camels
Camp Hudson
Camp Pena Colorado
Fort Bliss
Fort Concho
Fort Davis
Fort Davis, Texas
Fort Lancaster
Fort Leaton
Fort Hancock
Fort Hancock, Texas
Fort Stockton
Fort Stockton, Texas
Goodnight-Loving Trail
Goodnight, Charles
Grierson, Benjamin Henry
Jeff Davis County
Jumano Indians
La Junta de los Rios
Loving, Oliver
Presidio del Norte
Presidio, Texas
Shafter, William Rufus
Shafter Mining District
Shafter, Texas
Southern Pacific Railway
Texas and Pacific Railway
Victorio