Credits & Sources
Fort McKavett and the Hill Country Frontier was written by Steve Dial, Contributing Editor for Texas Beyond History (see Frontier Forts Supporters and Contributors).
Print Sources for Further Reading
Arnold, James R.
2000 Jeff Davis's Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas
Frontier. John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
Austerman, Wayne
1985 Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio-El Paso Mail,
1851-1881. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Fehrenbach, T.R.
1968 Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. Collier Books,
New York, paperback edition 1980.
1979 Comanches: The Destruction of a People. Alfred A. Knopf, New
York.
Fowler, Arlen
1971 The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891. Greenwood Publishing
Group, Inc., Westport, CT., University of Oklahoma Press paperback edition
1996.
Jordan, Terry G.
1966 German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century
Texas. University of Texas Press, Austin.
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, David Paul
1992 Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels.
Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Smith, Thomas T.
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.
Sullivan, Jerry M.
Nd. Fort McKavett: A Texas Frontier Post. Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department.
Utley, Robert M.
1967 Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.
McMillan, New York, University of Nebraska Press paperback edition, Bison
Book printing, 1981.
1973 Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1865-1891.
McMillan, New York, University of Nebraska Press paperback edition, Bison
Book printing, 1984.
Wallace, Ernest and E. Adamson Hoebel
1952 The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains. University of Oklahoma
Press, Norman, paperback edition, 1986.
Weaver, Bobby D.
1985 Castro's Colony: Empresario Development in Texas, 1842-1865.
Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Links
https://www.thc.texas.gov/historic-sites/fort-mckavett-state-historic-site
Website of Fort McKavett State Historic Site. Provides information on
activities and events, directions, and additional fort history and photographs.
http://www.fortconcho.com/
Fort Concho National Historic Landmark webpage, with a good variety of
information including a "virtual tour" of the post.
http://www.texasfortstrail.com/
Website of the Texas Forts Trail group, a partnership of individuals working
with city and state agencies and regional economic development organizations
to provide a excellent compendium of resources on Texas forts.
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/
The Handbook of Texas Online.
Suggested search topics:
Ben Ficklin, Texas
Buffalo Hump
Camp Verde
Comanche Trail
Fort Colorado
Fort Croghan
Fort Houston
Fort Inge
Fort Lincoln
Fort Little River
Fort Mason
Fort McKavett
Fort Martin Scott
Fort Terrett
Fourth United States Cavalry
Hays, John Coffee
Neighbors Expedition
Santa Cruz de San Sabá Mission