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Camp Verde: Texas Frontier Defense by Joseph Neal Luther (Paperback - Feb 20, 2012)
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One - Prehistoric Verde Valley
Paleoindian People
Archaic People
Middle Archaic People
Late Prehistoric People
Chapter Two - First Contact
Coahuiltecan
Jumano
Payaya
Tonkawa
Chapter Three – Spanish Texas
The Encomienda
Missions and Presidios
José de Urrutia
Toribio de Urrutia
The San Saba - Apache Trail
Apache Relations
Santa Cruz de San Sabá Mission
Nicolás de Lafora
Spanish Heritage
Chapter Four – The Lipan Apache
Náizhan
Ojo de Agua de Guadalupe
The Lipan Apache Warrior
Cabellos Colorados
Cuero de Coyote
La Rivera
Cuelgas de Castro
Flacco
The Last Raid
Chapter Five – The Penateka Comanche
Comancheria
Comanche Trail
Comanche Warrior
Buffalo Hump
Kiowa
Chapter Six - Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Department of Béxar
Tejanos
Alamo de Parras
José Francisco Ruiz
Settlement Patterns
Chapter Seven – Republic of Texas
Béxar County
Adelsverein
War with Mexico
Shingle Makers
Chapter Eight - Texas Rangers
John Coffee Hays
Battle of Walker’s Creek
Battle of Bandera Pass
Controversy
Colonel Flacco
John W. Sansom
Big Foot Wallace
John S. “Rip” Ford
Charles S. DeMontel
Chapter Nine - The U.S. Army in Texas
Mistakes Were Made
First Federal Line 1845-1849
Second Federal Line 1850-1859
U.S. Second Dragoons
U.S. Eighth Infantry Regiment
José Policarpo Rodríguez
Chapter Ten - Camp Davant
Captain James Hughes Callahan
Captain William R. Henry
Fugitive Slaves
Callahan Expedition Invades Mexico
Burning of Piedras Negras
Chapter Eleven – The Second United States Cavalry
Jeff Davis’s Own
Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee
Camp Verde, U.S. Army
Camp Ives
Accomplishments of the Second Cavalry in Texas
Chapter Twelve – Camels
Major H.C. Wayne
Hi Jolly
Confederate Camels
Chapter Thirteen – The Surrender of Camp Verde 1861
General Twiggs
Col. Carlos A. Waite
Captain James Paul
Post Returns for April 1961
Looting at Camp Verde
Chapter Fourteen - Camp Verde C.S.A.
Captain Pasquale Leo Buquor
Second Texas Mounted Rifles
Texas Third Infantry Regiment
Thirty-Sixth Texas Cavalry
Captain Duff and Martial Law in Kerr County
Battle of the Nueces
Kerr County Minutemen
A War Atrocity
Chapter Fifteen – Prison Canyon
Stephen Schwartz
The Scene at Prison Canyon
Chapter Sixteen - Frontier Regiment and Organization
Frontier Regiment
Frontier Organization
Dire Straits at Verde Valley
Chapter Seventeen - Camp Verde U.S.A. Reactivated
Kerr County Was the Frontier and Outlaws Besieged the Countryside
Kickapoo Indians
Fourth U.S. Cavalry
Fifth United States Infantry
Thirty-Fifth United States Infantry
Camp Verde is Closed
The Freedman’s Bureau at Camp Verde
Texas Readmitted to the Union
Chapter Eighteen – The Texas Militia
Kerr County’s Company I
Kerr County Minute Men
Kerrville Mountaineers
Chapter Nineteen – The Frontier Battalion
John W. Sansom
Neil Coldwell
Chapter Twenty – Conclusion
Camp Verde Ranch
Center Point Cemetery
Historic Camp Verde Store
Closing the Frontier
The View from the Veranda
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
End Notes