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Alexander Thomas E. <1931-> |
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Titolo |
Faded glory [[electronic resource] ] : a century of forgotten Texas military sites, then and now / / Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley |
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College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-58428-X |
9786613896735 |
1-60344-753-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Collana |
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Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; ; no. 25 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Military bases - Texas |
Fortification - Texas |
Battlefields - Texas |
Historic sites - Texas |
Texas History, Military |
Texas Antiquities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"A Texas A&M travel guide." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Mexican War, 1846-1848: Corpus Christi beach -- Thornton's skirmish -- Brazos Santiago -- Fort Brown -- The Indian Wars, 1848-1875: Fort McKavett -- Fort Lancaster -- Battle of Adobe Walls -- The Civil War, 1861-1865: Old Fort Bliss -- Battle of Galveston -- Camp Ford -- Battle of Sabine Pass -- The Spanish-American War, 1898: Menger Hotel -- Camp Mabry -- Camp Wood -- The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920: Downtown El Paso -- Glenn Spring -- Camp Ruidosa -- Camp Holland -- World War I, 1917-1918: USS Texas -- Galveston coastal defenses -- Camp Bowie I -- Camp MacArthur and Rich Field -- World War II, 1941-1945: Fort Clark -- Camp Bowie II -- Avenger Field -- Pecos Army Airfield -- Naval operations in wartime Orange -- Prisoners of war in Texas -- Marfa Army Airfield -- Epilogue: a call for preservation. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Each of the wars fought by Texans spawned the creation of scores of military sites across the state, from the lonely frontier outpost at Adobe |
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Walls to the once-bustling World War II shipyards of Orange. Today, although vestiges of the sites still exist, many are barely discernible, their once-proud martial trappings now faded by time, neglect, the elements and, most of all, public apathy. ?In Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley revisit twenty-nine sites-many of them largely forgotten-associated with what w |
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