<p>Throughout the 1800s, explorers braved brutal weather and hostile enemies, trekking through the towering mountains and fertile valleys on the ragged edge of civilization. These early pioneers built stockades, trading posts, military camps and miniature citadels that would shape the state of Color
Fort Worth : outpost on the Trinity
β Scribed by Oliver Knight; Cissy Stewart Lale
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 310
- Series
- Chisholm Trail series 8
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Subjects
Fort Worth (Tex ) -- History;Texas -- Fort Worth;Texas -- History
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