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NOTES ABBREVIATIONS ACP Branch Appointment, Commission, and Personal Branch Files AGO Adjutant General’s Office CAH Center for American History DT Department of Texas FODA Fort Davis National Historic Site GPLu Benjamin Grierson Papers, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (photocopy at Fort Davis National Historic Site) GPNew Benjamin Grierson Papers, Newberry Library, Chicago (microfilm copy at Fort Davis National Historic Site) GPSpr Benjamin Grierson Papers, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield (microfilm copy at Fort Davis National Historic Site) HQA Headquarters of the Army LC Library of Congress LR Letters Received LS Letters Sent NARA National Archives and Records Administration OR War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (unless otherwise noted, all references are to series 1) RLR Register of Letters Received SW, AR Secretary of War, Annual Reports TSL Texas State Library PREFACE 1. Froebel, Seven Years’ Travel, 460; Taylor and McDanield, The Coming Empire, 381; Myer to My Dear James, Feb. 14, 1855, in Crimmins, “General Albert J. Myer,” 57; Report of Stanley, Sept. 30, SW, AR, 1884, 125. 2. Sherman to Sheridan, Apr. 2, 1883, 26:553, roll 9, LS, HQA (microfilm M 857), NARA. 3. For Turner, see Billington, America’s Frontier Heritage, 25. For a concise summary of the recent “frontier” debate, see Rischer, “Career of Francis Jennings,” 517–29, especially note 8. Thanks to my colleague, David Blanke, for calling the Rischer essay to my attention. 4. Nobles, American Frontiers, xii–xiv. CHAPTER ONE 1. Anderson, Indian Southwest, 7–28; Hickerson, Jumanos, 123–30. 2. Hackett, Picardo’s Treatise, 1:137–38; Hickerson, Jumanos, 129–30. 3. Hickerson, Jumanos, 131–32; Bolton, Spanish Exploration in the South-West, 331–43. 4. Hutcheson, Trans-Pecos, 5–6; Biesaart et al., Prehistoric Archeological Sites in Texas, 151; Kirkland and Newcomb, Rock Art of Texas Indians, 127–34; Thompson, “Observations at a Trans-Pecos Rock Art Site,” 1–23; Stoddard et al., Borderlands Sourcebook, 70–73. 5. Anderson, Indian Southwest, 17–34; Hickerson, Jumanos, xxvii, 215–18, 226– 27; Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 103–104; Chipman, “In Search of Cabeza de Vaca’s Route across Texas,” 127–48. 6. Anderson, Indian Southwest, 24–29; Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage, 1:157; Applegate and Hanselka, La Junta de los Rios, 51–53. 7. Sonnichsen, Mescalero Apaches, 22–23, 31; Opler, “Mescalero Apache,” 10:419–39; Moorhead, Apache Frontier, 6, 200–203; Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 362. 8. Opler, “Mescalero Apache,” 432–33. 9. Ibid., 427; John, Storms Brewed in Other Men’s Worlds, 265–66; Carlson, Plains Indians, 38–39; Newcomb, Indians of Texas, 108, 155–57. For a revisionist study of Comanche society, see Betty, Comanche Society. 10. Bolton, Spanish Exploration, 2:172–90; Applegate and Hanselka, La Junta de los Rios, 13–14; Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage, 1:170–73, 181–87. 11. “La Junta de los Rios”; “Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Mission,” both in Handbook of Texas Online; Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage, 3:199–203; Applegate and Hanselka, La Junta de los Rios, 20–22, 54–55; Griffen, Indian Assimilation, 10–18, 97; Anderson, Indian Southwest, 94; Tyler, Big Bend, 34–36. 12. Bannon, Spanish Borderlands, 172–86; Faulk and Brinkerhoff, Lancers for the King, 53–55; Gerald, Spanish Presidios of the Late Eighteenth Century, 37–39; Thomas, Teodoro de Croix, 26, 38–43, 92–94; Moorhead, Apache Frontier, 37– 41, 88–90, 120, 203–206, 245–48, 252–69; Griffen, Indian Assimilation, 107– 109; Simmons, Border Comanches, 35–36. 13. Bannon, Spanish Borderlands, 229–38; Griffen, Indian Assimilation, 18. 14. Weber, Mexican Frontier, 108–17, 280; Moorhead, Apache Frontier, 286–90; Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage, 5:114–15; Thompson, Marfa and Presidio County, 1:36–37, 65; Sonnichsen, Mescalero Apaches, 54–55. 15. Applegate and Hanselka, La Junta de los Rios, 23–24, 56; Thompson, Marfa and Presidio County, 1:33–34, 39–40, 49; Gregg, Commerce on the Prairies, 334n–35n. 16. Tyler, Big Bend, 51–52; Applegate and Hanselka, La Junta de los Rios, 30–32; Bancroft, North American States, 598–99; Smith, “Mexican and Anglo-Saxon Traffic,” 98–100, 104; Weber, Mexican Frontier, 105. 146 NOTES TO PAGES 3–10 17. Bancroft, North Mexican States, 2:600–601; Smith, Borderlander, 149–71; Smith, “Mexican and Anglo-Saxon Traffic,” 102–14; Weber, Mexican Frontier, 87...