Fort Concho
Subtitle: A History And a Guide (Fred Rider Cotten Popular History)
Publisher: Texas State Historical Association
Published: September 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9780876112052
Subjects: Local history; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides; United States - State & Local - West; History - U.S.; Frontier and pioneer life; History; United States - State & Local - General; History: American; Texas; United States - 19th Century/Old West; Fort Concho (Tex.); Concho River Region; Concho River Region (Tex.)
Description: "In the fall of 1867 the United States Army established a permanent camp on the plateau where the North and Middle Concho rivers join. In more than twenty years of federal service Fort Concho was home to companies of fifteen regiments in the regular United States Army, including Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie's Fourth Cavalry and Col. Benjamin Grierson's Tenth Cavalry of buffalo soldiers. The post provided a focal point for major campaigns against the Comanches, Kiowas, and Apaches. Patrols from Fort Concho charted vast areas of West Texas and provided a climate for settlement on the Texas frontier"--Jacket.