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Selected Stories of the Western Frontier from "Indian Depredations in Texas"

by J. W. Wilbarger , Jake Akins
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798899460357
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Inkwell Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Inkwell Press
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  • Pages: 186
  • Original Price: USD 14.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 254 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

In the mid-nineteenth century, the counties of Young, Jack, Palo Pinto, and Parker lay along one of the most volatile stretches of the Western Frontier. From the 1850s through the mid-1870s, this region witnessed sustained conflict as settlement pressed westward across the plains of North Texas.

Drawn from J.W. Wilbarger's monumental Indian Depredations in Texas, this volume gathers selected narratives centered on these pivotal counties. Among the events treated are the Elm Creek Raid, the Warren Wagon Train Massacre, and the subsequent Indian trials that marked a turning point in American legal and frontier history.

These accounts-collected from firsthand testimony and preserved through decades of local memory-offer an unvarnished window into the realities of frontier life.

This edition presents carefully selected stories from Wilbarger's original work, preserving the voice and substance of one of Texas's earliest chroniclers of frontier violence while focusing attention on the counties most deeply affected by nineteenth-century raids and reprisals.

From the grasslands where raiding parties moved under cover of night to the courtrooms where unprecedented trials unfolded, these narratives trace the arc of a frontier in transformation. Together, they document a region that stood at the crossroads of settlement, resistance, tragedy, and change.

J.W. Wilbarger devoted decades to collecting testimony and documentary evidence concerning Indian depredations across the Texas frontier. His work remains centered on the counties most deeply affected by nineteenth-century raids and reprisals.

Jake Akins has conducted extensive research into the history of the Western Frontier in North Texas, with particular emphasis on Young, Jack, Palo Pinto, and Parker Counties. This edition presents selected narratives from Wilbarger's original work, maintaining its historical integrity while offering a focused regional lens.

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