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Southern Arizona military outposts /
- Title
- Southern Arizona military outposts / John P. Langellier.
- Author
- Langellier, John P. (John Phillip)
- Publication
- Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., ©2011.
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- Description
- 127 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In the 1840s, the powerful pull of the Manifest Destiny brought the U.S. Army to today's southern Arizona. The first forces came as a vanguard marching westward to conquer California, but soon their comrades returned. They would establish a string of outposts, a few of which remain more than a century after their founding. These installations greatly contributed to local military, economic, social, and even political history. Their inhabitants included noted 19th-century generals George Crook and Nelson A. Miles, as well as a later officer, Omar Bradley of World War II fame. Some of these men brought their families to share the often lonely, monotonous existence of life at a frontier fort. Occasionally their routine was broken by grueling field service that more than once sent troops southward on to Mexican soil where they suffered and sometimes died. Among these stalwarts were buffalo soldiers, Indian scouts, and new arrivals fresh from Europe. Historian John Langellier ... captures their trials and tribulations through nearly 200 photographs, illustrations, and maps"--Page 4 of cover.
- Series Statement
- Images of America
- Uniform Title
- Images of America.
- Subject
- Arizona > History, Local > Pictorial works
- Arizona > History, Military > Pictorial works
- Arizona
- Armed Forces > Military life
- Fortification > Arizona > History > Pictorial works
- Fortification
- Frontier and pioneer life > Arizona > Pictorial works
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Historic buildings > Arizona > Pictorial works
- Historic buildings
- Military bases > Arizona > History > Pictorial works
- Military bases
- Soldiers > Arizona > History > Pictorial works
- Soldiers
- United States. Army > History > Pictorial works
- United States. Army > Pictorial works
- United States. Army
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Local history.
- Military history.
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Military garrisons -- 2. Army families -- 3. Field operations -- 4. Commanders -- 5. Buffalo soldiers -- 6. Indian scouts -- 7. Preserving the past -- Bibliography.
- ISBN
- 9780738579924
- 0738579920
- LCCN
- 2010940836
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library