Product Description: The idea of the West conjures exciting images of tenacious men and women, huge expanses of unclaimed territory, and feelings of both adventure and lonesome isolation. Located astride communication lines linking San Antonio, El Paso, Presidio, and Chihuahua City, the United States Army’s post at Fort Davis commanded a strategic position at a military, cultural, and economic crossroads of nineteenth-century Texas...read more

Product Description: A guide to the best books on the Civil War offers entertaining, enlightening, and often contentious essays on a wide range of excellent studies on the subject.

An A-to-Z volume looks past the legends, misconceptions, biased reports, and myths to present an accurate and objective view of the hard-fought engagements that arose after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World until the late 1800s among Native American groups and against their non-Indian opponents.

Product Description: Army surgeon, ethnographer, and writer William Henry Corbusier (1844–1930) witnessed the transformation of the United States from young republic to world power. In Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar, the retired army officer and surgeon recounts his experiences, which include a New York City childhood, adolescence in gold-rush California, and army life from the wilds of Arizona to the jungles of the occupied Philippines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Provides brief profiles of the one hundred most significant persons of the American Civil War, ranked in order of importance (view table of contents)

Product Description: Based on a wide range of sources, including materials only recently made available to researchers, this first complete, carefully documented biography of Miles skillfully delineates the brilliant, abrasive, and controversial tactician whose career in many respects epitomized the story of the Old Army...read more

Product Description: This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one of the U.S. Army's most important western posts, relates the exciting history of Trans-Pecos Texas—the far western reaches off the state. Wooster traces the history of this Davis Mountains region from the days when Indians and later Spaniards and Mexicans inhabited the area, through its days as the site of Texan and American interests...read more

Product Description: Texas’ frontiers in the 1840s were buffeted by disputes with Mexico and attacks by Indian tribes who refused to give up their life-styles to make way for new settlers. To ensure some measure of peace in the far reaches of Texas, the U...read more