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Product Identifiers
PublisherTexas STATE Historical Association
ISBN-101625110529
ISBN-139781625110527
eBay Product ID (ePID)14038618386
Product Key Features
Book TitleOld Army in the Big Bend of Texas, 1911-1921 : the Last Cavalry Frontier
Number of Pages350 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicLatin America / Mexico, United States / South / West South Central (Ar, La, Ok, Tx), United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Military / World War I, Military / United States
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, History
AuthorThomas T. Smith
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Anyone interested in the regular army, the history of the Big Bend, early twentieth-century Texas and the southwestern borderlands, the Texas National Guard, and U.S.-Mexico relations during the period will find this work essential."--Robert Wooster, author of The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783-1900., "Based largely on archival records, and replete with footnotes, photos and a long bibliography, this is a volume that history and military buffs will relish. That said, there is also plenty of good narrative and high drama for the general reader."--John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News
Dewey Decimal355.00976493
SynopsisEven before Pancho Villa's 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and the following punitive expedition under General John J. Pershing, the U.S. Army was strengthening its presence on the southwestern border in response to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Manning forty-one small outposts along a three-hundred mile stretch of the Rio Grande region, the army remained for a decade, rotating eighteen different regiments, primarily cavalry, until the return of relative calm. The remote, rugged, and desolate terrain of the Big Bend defied even the technological advances of World War I, and it remained very much a cavalry and pack mule operation until the outposts were finally withdrawn in 1921. With The Old Army in the Big Bend of Texas: The Last Cavalry Frontier, 1911-1921, Thomas T. "Ty" Smith, one of Texas's leading military historians, has delved deep into the records of the U.S. Army to provide an authoritative portrait, richly complemented by many photos published here for the first time, of the final era of soldiers on horseback in the American West.
