Elaine Coleman

Texas Haunted Forts

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Produktbeschreibung

Ghostly sightings and eerie happenings abound in the Lone Star State¿s old frontier forts Throughout the 1800s, military forts sprang up as oases of safety between long stretches of rough, undeveloped country. Mexican troops built fortifications to protect their territory, while the U.S. army sought to create a foothold in the new frontier of Texas and protect settlers from clashes with hostile Native Americans. Many a bloody battle was fought within these forts, during which scores of soldiers, missionaries, women, and children lost their lives. Time has eroded and even erased most of the walls behind which many found protection. However, some say that the spirits of those unfortunates continue to wander the deserted grounds where they met an untimely end. Although no evidence of Fort Fitzhugh remains, campers along nearby Elm Creek have ended up fleeing in the middle of the night to escape the gruesome spectacle of a young settler who was brutally murdered by a Comanche raiding party in the mid-1800s. The former morgue at Fort Brown¿where many victims of a yellow fever epidemic ended up¿is said to be plagued with inexplicable electrical problems. At Fort Sherman, locals report they still hear the cries of a Cherokee widow who was killed by a soldier while stealing food to feed her three young children. Elaine Coleman is an award-winning author and former editor for two independent West Texas newspapers. She is a sixth-generation Texan and lives with her husband, Jerry, on the family farm near Winters, Texas, with three dogs, an old barrel racing horse, and sixty or so mother cows.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781493032457
• ISBN-10: 1493032453
• Artikelnr.: 48256272

Autorenporträt

By Elaine Coleman

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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Forts Established Before 1800
Fort St. Louis/Presidio La Bahía The Alamo Real Presidio de San Sabá Part
II: Forts Established Between 1800 and 1845 Fort Anahuac Fort Bend Woods'
Fort Fort Bird Fort Boggy Moore's Fort Fort Fitzhugh Fort Lipantitlán Fort
Colorado Fort Brown Fort Parker Fort Milam Fort Milam/Fort Burleson Fort
Sherman Little River Fort Fort Lyday Part III: Forts Established Between
1845 and 1865 Fort Marcy El Fortin/Fort Leaton Fort Inge Blair's Fort Fort
Terrett Fort Duncan Fort Davis Camp Colorado Fort Cienega Fort Belknap Fort
Bliss Fort Stockton Fort McIntosh Fort Lancaster Fort Clark Fort Lincoln
Camp Hudson Fort Quitman Fort Gates Fort Mason Fort Chadbourne Fort
McKavett Fort Martin Scott Fort Phantom Hill Fort Ringgold Camp Cooper Fort
Esperanza Fort Graham Fort Croghan Camp Charlotte Part IV: Forts
Established 1865 to Present Day Fort Richardson Fort Griffin Fort Concho
Camp Elizabeth Fort Buffalo Springs Fort Hancock Fort Elliott Fort D. A.
Russell Bibliography Index About the Author