02458cam a2200313 i 4500 611296186 TxAuBib 20221202120000.0 221202s1965||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u TxAuBib rda Utley, Robert Marshall. Fort Davis : National Historic Site, Texas / by: Robert M. Utley. Washington, D.C. : United States Department of the Interior, 1965. 62 p : ill., PB ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Illustrations: Lt. William H.C. Whiting -- Bvt. Maj. Gen. Persifor F. Smith commanded the Dept. of Texas in 1854 -- Lt. Col. Washington Seawell, 8th Infantry, built Fotr Davis in 1854 -- A Comanche warrior / Frederic Remington -- An overland station: Indians coming in with the stage / Frederic Remington -- Regulations prescribed this uniform for infantrymen in the 1850's -- Inspecting Fort Davis in 1856 -- Assistant surgeon Albert J. Myer in 1854 -- An Army signal station at night -- From Myer's Manual of Signals, 1864 -- The Bursting of the chrysalis and the Omnipotent bugler / Frederic Remington -- A troop of the 9th Cavalry arrayed in dress uniform -- The 25th Infantry garrisoned Fort Davis, 1883 -- Company of enlisted men of the regiment in dress uniform: -- Fort Davis in October 1867 -- Lt. Col. Wesley Merritt, 9th Cavalry -- Fort Davis in 1875 -- William R. (Pecos Bill) Shafter -- Regimental band -- West Texas trails 1850-60 -- Apache homelands -- Col. Benjamin H. Grierson -- Charge / Frederic Remington -- Two aspects of Apache strength: a Mescalero warrior in the 1870's and a Mescalero medicine man, 10 years later -- Victorio, chief of the Warm Springs Apaches -- Three Apache warriors -- Kaetenay, Nana, and San Juan -- Fort Davis in 1887 -- Fort Davis in 1963. This publication is one of a series of handbooks describing the historical and archeological areas in the National Park System. Tells the story of Fort Davis from the events leading to its founding in 1854 to its establishment as a National Historic Site in 1933. 20221202. Apache Indians. Travel. Comanche Indians. Fort Davis. Fort Davis National Historic Site. Texas. TXING