The Settlers' War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s by Gregory Michno
The Settlers' War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s by Gregory Michno
During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier line expanded 2,000 miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas, the frontier line only expanded about 200 miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met a nearly immovable Native American resistance and a contest for possession of Texas' hills and prairies ensued for decades. The struggle was down and dirty.
In Texas in the 1860s, there were no large-scale battles between the army and the Indians. The targets of the Comanches, Kiowas, and Apaches usually were the homesteaders on the Texas frontier.
In Texas, the non-combatants bore the brunt of the warfare, losing far more than the soldiers who were supposedly there to protect them.
Caxton Press, Hardcover, 2011
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