Credits & Sources
Fort Griffin and the Prairie-Plains Frontier was written by Steve Dial, Contributing Editor for Texas Beyond History (see Frontier Forts Supporters and Contributors).
Print Sources
Arnold, James R.
2000 Jeff Davis's Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas
Frontier.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
Cashion, Ty
1996 A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
Fehrenbach, T.R.
1968 Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. Collier Books,
New York, paperback edition 1980.
1979 Comanches: The Destruction of a People. Alfred A. Knopf, New
York.
Galbreath, Lester
1997 Fort Griffin and the Clear Fork Country. Independently published;
available at Fort Griffin SHS.
Haley, James L.
1976 The Buffalo War. Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y. University of
Oklahoma Press, Norman, paperback edition 1985.
Harlan, Gerald D.
1969 Fort Griffin State Historic Park, Shackelford County, Texas.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Park Services Division, Austin.
Leckie, William H.
1967 The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the
West. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
Smith, Thomas T.
2000 The Old Army in Texas: A Research Guide to the U.S. Army in Nineteenth-Century
Texas. Texas State Historical Association, Austin.
Rose, Cynthia
1994 Lottie Deno: Gambling Queen of Hearts. Clear
Light Press.
Utley, Robert M.
1967 Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.
Macmillan, New York. University of Nebraska Press paperback edition, Bison
Book printing 1981.
1973 Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891.
Macmillan, New York. University of Nebraska Press paperback edition, Bison
Book printing 1984.
Wallace, Ernest and E. Adamson Hoebel
1952 The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains. University of Oklahoma
Press, Norman, paperback edition, 1986.
Links
Fort Griffin State Historic Site
Information on the site, facilities, directions, history, and scheduled events.
Fort Richardson State Park and Historic Site
Directions, history, upcoming events.
http://www.fortchadbourne.org/
Website of the Fort Chadbourne Foundation and plans for further renovation
of the fort.
http://www.fortphantom.org/
Comprehensive website on the fort, its history, future plans, events,
and archeological investigations conducted there.
http://www.visitgrahamtexas.com/p/things-to-do-/249
Fort Belknap history and
links to other sites; maintained by city of Graham, Texas.
The Handbook of Texas Online
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