Fort Phantom Hill (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
168
Utgivningsdatum
2013-10-24
Upplaga
Digital Original ed.
Förlag
State House Press
Medarbetare
Wright, William Parker
Illustrationer
54 black & white photographs, 18 maps
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 10 mm
Vikt
268 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9781933337586

Fort Phantom Hill

The Mysterious Ruins on the Clear Fork of The Brazos River

av Bill Wright
Häftad,  Engelska, 2013-10-24
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The history of Fort Phantom Hill is an interesting saga of defense, a story of both political necessity and individual hubris, and a tale of human perseverance and shortsightedness. The story of the Post on the Brazos River has all the elements that characterize human activity with its triumphs and tragedies, victories and defeats. As time passed, circumstances dictated changing uses for the structures at Fort Phantom Hill, from military outpost to stage station to hunters outpost. Eventually, opportunities for adaptation ran their course and the stone structures fell into neglect. The frontier was occupied by new immigrants who possessed a more modern technology. The threat of Indians was replaced by the hard daily work of living in a semi-desert environment. In Fort Phantom Hill: The Mysterious Ruins on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, Bill Wright weaves the threads of this story into the larger warp and weft of western history and shows how this small fort was conceived, lived, and died as an important part of the winning of the West.
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Bill Wright has done it again, with imagery and an eye for history. He has brought forward the story of Fort Phantom to the American saga. Donald S. Frazier PhD.

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Well-known American author and photographer Bill Wright has published five previous books, including Portraits from the Desert: Bill Wrights Big Bend, Peoples Lives: A Celebration of the Human Spirit, and the award-winning The Tiguas: Pueblo Indians of Texas. He has exhibited his award-winning photographs internationally and in the United States in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions. He is a member and former president of the Philosophical Society of Texas.

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