Author: Leo E. OlivaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Union (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest
Author: Leo E. OlivaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Union (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Forts and Supplies
Author: Robert Walter FrazerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
For fifteen years prior to the Civil War, the American army was the major force in the Southwest's economic development. The military opened new roads into the West and built forts in the midst of Indian country, which encouraged homesteaders and farmers as well as ranchers and miners to follow and settle.There quickly emerged between soldier and citizen a system of trade and barter that revolved around the army's demand for local products. Robert Frazer offers here the first book-length study of the economic impact of the military in the Southwest during the early years of U.S. occupation. Utilizing a wealth of largely unpublished materials, Frazer provides a detailed account of the emergence and growth of the military-supported economy in the area from Taos to El Paso and Arizona to the Texas border. He reconstructs the daily life of commercial transaction between the forts and those anglos and Hispanos who profited from the trade. The need to supply the army resulted in a reorientation of the agricultural and commercial patterns inherited from the colonial period, and it brought on such effects as inflation, changes in diet, and wrangling over bid procedures. In addition, they army's need for goods and services invariably conflicted with the government's drive to economize: commanding officers repeatedly tried to reorganize the supplying of their troops, including one attempt to make the forts self-sufficient through raising cattle and putting in farms and gardens. The economic role of forts in the West is a fascinating part of military history that brings a new dimension of understanding to conventional accounts of the frontier army.
Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest
Author: Leo E. OlivaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Union (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Forts and Forays
Author: Dr. James A. BennettPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789121264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Forts and Forays is a rare account of frontier soldiering in the pre-Civil War Southwest by an enlisted man. James A. Bennett joined the regular army in 1849 and was stationed in New Mexico for six years before he deserted to Mexico. Assigned to the First Dragoons, he visited most major New Mexico posts such as Forts Union, Craig, and Fillmore. His company was stationed at or passed through Taos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Socorro, and other New Mexico settlements. In six years, his rank climbed from private to sergeant before an unknown infraction reduced him to the ranks. Bennett served under future Civil War generals Edwin V. Sumner, Richard S. Ewell, and John W. Davidson. During his service, Bennett waged war on the Kicarilla, Mogollon, Mescalero, and Mimbres Apaches, the Navajos, and the Utes, suffering serious wounds at the Battle of Cienguilla Forts and Forays is a unique glimpse into the routine duties and terrifying ordeals of soldiering in the antebellum Southwest.
Soldiers and Settlers
Author: Darlis A. MillerPublisher:
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Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
"The Southwest developed a mixed economy in an era when laissez-faire capitalism dominated. The army's demand for bread and beef, for instance, created the flour-milling and cattle industries of the Southwest. Moreover, the frontier army was the single largest employer of civilians and relied on them for much of the skilled labor needed in everything from building forts to shoeing horses"--Introd.
Of a Temporary Character
Author: Laura E. SoullièrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Union (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Fort Union
Author: T. J. SperryPublisher: Western National Parks Association
ISBN: 1877856010
Category : Fort Union (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Fort Union history coincided with the burgeoning of nineteenth-century photography. Fort Union: A Photo History collects many of these photographs, some never before published, in a visual documentary of a bustling Old West fort. Close-ups of officers and enlisted men, as well as the buildings and activities of the fort, take the reader back in to a different era of American history.
Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers
Author: Frontier Cavalry Trooper
Author: William Edward MatthewsPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082635226X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"A collection of letters that Private Edward L. Matthews wrote from 1869 to 1874 to his family back home in Massachusetts, detailing his life at Fort Bascom and Fort Union, New Mexico Territory. Matthews's letters provide detailed insight into the daily life of the enlisted man and how he felt about the job he was doing"--Provided by publisher.
The American Soldier, 1866-1916
Author: John A. HaymondPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476632081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In the years following the Civil War, the U.S. Army underwent a professional decline. Soldiers served their enlistments at remote, nameless posts from Arizona to Alaska. Harsh weather, bad food and poor conditions were adversaries as dangerous as Indian raiders. Yet under these circumstances, men continued to enlist for $13 a month. Drawing on soldiers’ narratives, personal letters and official records, the author explores the common soldier’s experience during the Reconstruction Era, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War and the Punitive Expedition into Mexico.