A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887

diversification to form a ranching-based social and economic way of life. The process turned a largely southern people into westerners. Others helped shape the history of the Clear Fork country as well. Notable among them were Anglo men and women - some of them earnest settlers, others unscrupulous opportunists - who followed the first pioneers; Indians of various tribes who claimed the land as their own or who were forcibly settled there by the white government; and.

• | Author: Ty Cashion
• | Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: January 15, 1997
• | Number of Pages: 388 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0806128550
• | ISBN-13: 9780806128559