Credits & Sources
Fort Clark and the Rio Grande Frontier was written by Steve Dial, contributing editor for Texas Beyond History. For more information on Dial and the TBH Forts Project team, see Frontier Forts Supporters and Contributors.
Print Sources
Austerman, Wayne
1985 Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio-El Paso Mail,
1851-1881. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Cusack, Michael F. and Caleb Pirtle III
1985 The Lonely Sentinel. Eakin Press, Austin.
Fehrenbach, T.R.
1968 Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. Collier Books,
New York, paperback edition 1980.
Fehrenbach, T.R.
1979 Comanches: The Destruction of a People. Alfred A. Knopf, New
York.
Ford, John Salmon
1963 Rip Ford's Texas, edited by Stephen B. Oates. University of
Texas Press, Austin, paperback edition 1987.
Fowler, Arlen L.
1971 The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891. Greenwood Publishing
Group, Inc., Westport, CT. University of Oklahoma Press paperback edition
1996.
Haenn, William F.
2002 Fort Clark and Bracketville: Land of Heroes. Arcadia Publishing,
Chicago.
Jackson, J.
1986 Los Mesteños: Spanish Ranching in Texas 1721-1821.
Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
James, Vinton Lee
1938 Frontier and Pioneer Recollections of Early Days in San Antonio
and West Texas. Artes Graficas, San Antonio.
Lane, Lydia S.
1893 I Married a Soldier. J.P. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia.
Leckie, William H.
1967 The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the
West. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
Pierce, Michael D.
1993 The Most Promising Young Officer: A Life of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
Smith, Thomas T.
1993 Fort Inge: Sharps, Spurs and Sabers on the Texas Frontier, 1849-1869.
Eakin
Press, Austin.
1999 The U.S. Army and the Texas Frontier Economy, 1845-1900. Texas
A&M
University Press, College Station.
2000 The Old Army in Texas: A Research Guide to the U.S. Army in Nineteenth
Century Texas. Texas State Historical Association, Austin.
Utley, Robert
1973 Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891.
Macmillan,
New York. University of Nebraska Press paperback edition, Bison Book printing
1984.
2002 Lone Star Justice. Oxford University Press, New York.
Weber, David J.
1982 The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under
Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Links
http://www.fortclark.com/history.html
The website of the Fort Clark Historical Society, which maintains a museum
on the grounds of Fort Clark Springs resort. Information on fort history
and the current resort complex.
For more information on Spanish Colonial ranching in south Texas, see: www.texasbeyondhistory.net/falcon/.
The Handbook of Texas Online has information pertinent to the Rio Grande frontier on the following related topics:
Apache Indians
Cattle Trailing
Beales's Rio Grande Colony
Beales, John Charles
Black Seminole Indians
Black Seminole Scouts
Bliss, Zenas Randall
Brackett, Oscar Bernadotte
Brackettville, Texas
Bullis, John Lapham
Del Rio, Texas
Eagle Pass, Texas
Factor, Pompey
Fort Brown
Fort Clark,
Fort Duncan
Fort Ewell
Fort Inge
Fort McIntosh
Fort Merrill
Fort Ringgold
Kickapoo Indians
Las Moras Springs
Payne, Isaac
Shafter, William Rufus
Sheridan, Philip Henry
Wallace, William Alexander Anderson (Bigfoot)
Ward, John