Format:
Book
Title:
Colorado forts : historic outposts on the wild frontier / Jolie Anderson Gallagher.
Author:
Gallagher, Jolie Anderson.
Call Number:
978.8 Gallaghe
Publisher, Date:
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2013.
Description:
159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects:
Fortification -- Colorado -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Colorado.
Indians of North America -- Wars -- Colorado.
Colorado -- History, Military -- 19th century.
Colorado -- History, Local.
Colorado -- History -- To 1876.
Contents:
Chronology -- [1] Contested Borders (1806/1822) -- What, is this not the Red River? -- From the heads of Spaniards -- [2] Trading Post Wars (1822/1842) -- Little White Man -- Damn the government -- Air-built castle -- I hope to make a fortune -- I have no profession -- Do all the harm possible -- Rivaled bedlam itself -- Wretched species of a fort -- [3] Manifest Destiny (1842/1849) -- My true and reliable friend -- Wickedness and idleness -- The world is coming with him -- Ready to wade in Mexican blood -- The only Bent brother left -- Fremont's Christmas camp -- [4] Gold and the Civil War (1849/1864) -- We heard an explosion -- Serving an ungrateful man -- Bespattered with the blood of victims -- Extinction is imminent -- The citizen must be a soldier -- Mysterious attraction about her -- [5] War on the Plains (1864/1870) -- No right to be called a battle -- Close and desperate fight -- Enough to make men desert -- Inadequate for proper protection -- [6] The Utes Must Go (1870/1880) -- Wholly unlike Cooper's red men -- All the good people will remember them -- Watching them pass in single file -- Epilogue -- Day trips.
ISBN:
9781609496609
1609496604