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- Fort Worth: A Frontier Triumph
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: TCU Press
summary
In the 1950s, history teacher Julia Kathryn Garrett of Fort Worth began collecting stories from old-timers and pioneers whose memory or knowledge reached back to the early days of the city. For fifteen summer vacations she worked from morning to night on her book, creating an anecdotal chronicle of the early years of the city that began as a fort on the Trinity River in 1849. She closed her history with events a quarter of a century later, when Fort Worth was poised on the edge of growth, ready to become a modern city with the 1876 arrival of the railroad.
First published in 1972 and reprinted by TCU Press in 1996.
First published in 1972 and reprinted by TCU Press in 1996.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- FOREWORD to the 1996 Edition
- pp. xv-xvi
- BOOK I: Conflict on the Prairies
- pp. 1-21
- 2. The Barrier on the Prairies
- pp. 7-10
- 3. “My Brother’s Keeper”
- pp. 11-16
- 4. The Sword
- pp. 17-20
- 5. Minutemen
- pp. 21-24
- 6. Minutemen at Village Creek
- pp. 25-29
- 7. Frustrated Effort
- pp. 30-34
- 8. The Hand of Friendship
- pp. 35-41
- 9. The Treaty of 1843
- pp. 42-48
- 10. Luring Land Laws
- pp. 51-54
- 11. A Lonesome Dove
- pp. 55-57
- 12. A Bubbling Springs
- pp. 58-61
- 13. A Fort and a General
- pp. 62-67
- 14. The Lone Fort on the Prairie
- pp. 68-74
- 15. The Major
- pp. 75-84
- BOOK III: Fort Town on the Prairies
- 16. Cabins on the Fort’s Horizon
- pp. 87-106
- 18. Vision and Tussle, Then Fort Town
- pp. 121-165
- BOOK IV: Shadows on the Prairies
- 19. Vexations of 1860
- pp. 169-192
- 20. Decisions of 1861 and 1862
- pp. 193-211
- 21. Harvest Time of Decisions
- pp. 212-232
- BOOK V: Re-sowing the Prairies
- pp. 233-253
- 23. Redemption, 1870-1872
- pp. 305-337
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 341-348
- APPENDICES
- pp. 349-366
Additional Information
ISBN
9780875655260
Related ISBN(s)
9780875652023
MARC Record
OCLC
42330052
Pages
388
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-07
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1999