| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Book Review

Frontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West. By Robert Wooster. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii + 210 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)

Robert Wooster's Frontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West is a splendid contextual history of Fort Davis and the Trans-Pecos region of Texas in the mid- and late-nineteenth century. Established in 1854 near the headwaters of Limpia Creek and backdropped by the picturesque Davis Mountains, the fort figured prominently in the civilizing of West Texas and the Southwest. Its garrison, which, following the Civil War, included all four of the U. S. Army's African-American regiments, guarded communication lines, engaged Apache and Comanche Indians in brutal campaigns, and served as an economic engine for regional development. By the time of its abandonment in 1891, the Trans-Pecos was settled and Fort Davis had fully outlived its usefulness as a military station. Because of the salubrious climate of the Trans-Pecos area, the government considered making the post a sanitary hospital, but that idea was never realized. Amazingly, however, many of Fort Davis's stone and adobe structures survived into the mid-twentieth century, when the site was added to the National Park System, a final tribute to its extraordinary role in the settlement of the West.

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