Standing in the Gap
Subtitle: Army Outposts, Picket Stations, and the Pacification of the Texas Frontier 1866-1886
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780875652467
Subjects: War & defence operations; c 1800 to c 1900; History, Military; Military History - Modern; U.S. History - Westward Expansion; United States - State & Local - General; History - U.S; Texas; History: American; United States - 19th Century/Old West; Frontier and pioneer life; Wars; 19th century; Fortification; History; Indians of North America
First sentence: Pacification of the Texas frontier during the late nineteenth century posed great difficulties for its guardian, the United States Army.