Sentinel of the Southern Plains: Fort Richardson and the Northwest Texas Frontier, 1866-1878

by Allen Lee Hamilton

A paper back book This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875650732
• ISBN13: 9780875650739
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Narrative history at its best!!!!

When it comes to Western history, and narrative history, this is the absolute best book I have ever read. If you like your cavalry and Indian stories in the best "John Ford/John Wayne" tradition, with the advantage of intensive and even-handed research, you simply have to buy this book. It reads like a novel, captures all the pathos of the era, and plays fair with both sides. In Hamilton's west, there are no good guys, and no bugles and guidons glory; there is only survival, and the understanding that, in the end, might does really make right, and the strongest do indeed survive. A fantastic read, and with the footnotes and bibliography, a must for the general reader and the specialist too. AND, the best treatment of the Warren Wagon Train Raid, one of the most important events in the history of the Southern Plains, ever done. FOUR STARS!