Douglas C Mcchristian: 3 books
Fort Bowie, Arizona
Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858–1894
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Fort Bowie, in present-day Arizona, was established in 1862 at the site of the famous Battle of Apache Pass, where U.S. troops clashed with Apache chief Cochise and his warriors. The fort’s dual purpose was to guard the invaluable water supply at Apache Spring and to control Indians in the developing...
Fort Laramie
Military Bastion of the High Plains
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the army in 1890, it was involved in the buffalo hide trade, overland migrations,...
Regular Army O!
Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865–1891
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
“The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. McChristian’s remarkable work capturing the lot of...