Finding the Wild West: The Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Southwest states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas—one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series—highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
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Finding the Wild West: The Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Southwest states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas—one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series—highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
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Finding the Wild West: The Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas

Finding the Wild West: The Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas

by Mike Cox
Finding the Wild West: The Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas

Finding the Wild West: The Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas

by Mike Cox

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From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Southwest states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas—one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series—highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493064137
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date: 06/01/2022
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mike Cox is the author of more than thirty-five nonfiction books and hundreds of newspaper articles, columns, magazine stories, and essays for a wide variety of regional and national publications. When not writing, he spends as much time as he can traveling, fishing, hunting, and looking for new stories to tell. He lives in the Hill Country village of Wimberley, Texas.

Table of Contents

Preface: Finding the Wild West ix

Introduction: The Southwest xiii

Arizona

Bisbee (Cochise County) 2

Clifton (Greenlee County) 5

Douglas (Cochise County) 6

Eager (Apache County) 6

Fairbank (Cochise County) 7

Flagstaff (Coconino County) 8

Florence (Pinal County) 9

Fort Apache (Navajo County) 12

Fort Bowie (Cochise County) 13

Fort Huachuca (Cochise County) 15

Fort Verde (Yavapai County) 15

Globe (Gila County) 16

Holbrook (Navajo County) 22

Jerome (Yavapai County) 24

Kingman (Mohave County) 26

Oatman (Mohave County) 27

Payson (Gila County) 29

Phoenix (Maricopa County) 30

Prescott (Yavapai County) 32

Quartzsite (La Paz County) 39

Scottsdale (Maricopa County) 41

Show Low (Navajo County) 41

Springerville (Apache County) 42

Tombstone (Cochise County) 43

Tucson (Pima County) 50

Tubac (Santa Cruz County) 54

Wickenburg (Mariposa County) 55

Willcox (Cochise County) 57

Williams (Coconino County) 60

Winslow (Navajo County) 61

Young (Gila County) 62

Yuma (Yuma County) 63

New Mexico

Alamogordo (Otero County) 68

Albuquerque (Bernalillo County) 71

Artesia (Eddy County) 74

Carlsbad (Eddy County) 75

Chloride (Sierra County) 77

Cimarron (Colfax County) 78

Clayton (Union County) 83

Columbus (Luna County) 85

Deming (Luna County) 86

Fort Craig (Socorro County) 88

Fort Seldon (Dona Ana County) 88

Fort Sumner (De Baca County) 89

Fort Stanton (Lincoln County) 92

Fort Union (Mora County) 93

Hillsboro (Sierra County) 93

Kingston (Sierra County) 95

Las Cruces (Dona Ana County) 96

Las Vegas (San Miguel County) 102

Lincoln (Lincoln County) 105

Lordsburg (Hidalgo County) 108

Mescalero (Otero County) 109

Raton (Colfax County) 109

Reserve (Catron County) 112

Roswell (Chaves County) 113

Ruidoso (Lincoln County) 116

Santa Clara (Grant County) 117

Santa Fe (Santa Fe County) 118

Shakespeare (Hidalgo County) 121

Silver City (Grant County) 122

Taos (Taos County) 124

Tucumcari (Quay County) 126

White Oaks (Lincoln County) 127

Texas

Abilene (Taylor, Jones Counties) 132

Albany (Shackleford County) 134

Alpine (Brewster County) 135

Amarillo (Potter, Randall Counties) 136

Austin (Travis County) 137

Bandera (Bandera County) 143

Blessing (Matagorda County) 144

Belton (Bell County) 144

Borger (Hutchinson County) 145

Brownsville (Cameron County) 147

Brownwood (Brown County) 150

Buffalo Gap (Taylor County) 151

Canyon (Randall County) 151

Center Point (Kerr County) 152

Colorado City (Mitchell County) 154

Comanche (Comanche County) 155

Corpus Christi (Nueces County) 156

Cuero (DeWitt County) 158

Dalhart (Dallam, Hartley Counties) 159

Dallas (Dallas County) 161

Del Rio (Val Verde County) 165

Denison (Grayson County) 167

Denton (Denton County) 167

El Paso (El Paso County) 168

Eagle Pass (Maverick County) 174

Fort Davis (Jeff Davis County) 176

Fort McKavett (Menard County) 177

Fort Stockton (Pecos County) 178

Fort Worth (Tarrant County) 180

Fredericksburg (Gillespie County) 185

Galveston (Galveston County) 188

Giddings (Lee County) 189

Goliad (Goliad County) 191

Gonzales (Gonzales County) 192

Goodnight (Armstrong County) 193

Graham (Young County) 194

Groesbeck (Limestone County) 196

Helena (Karnes County) 197

Hico (Hamilton County) 199

Houston (Harris County) 200

Huntsville (Walker County) 202

Indianola (Calhoun County) 204

Jacksboro (Jack County) 206

Jefferson (Marion County) 208

Kingsville (Kleberg County) 210

Lampasas (Lampasas County) 212

Langtry (Val Verde County) 213

Laredo (Webb County) 215

Longview (Gregg County) 217

Lubbock (Lubbock County) 218

Marfa (Presidio County) 219

Mason (Mason County) 220

Midland (Midland County) 223

Mobeetie (Wheeler County) 224

Pecos (Reeves County) 225

Pleasanton (Atascosa County) 227

Presidio (Presidio County) 228

Quanah (Hardeman County) 229

Richmond (Fort Bend County) 233

Round Rock (Williamson County) 234

San Angelo (Tom Green County) 237

San Antonio (Bexar County) 238

San Marcos (Hays County) 247

San Saba (San Saba County) 248

Santa Anna (Coleman County) 249

Shafter (Presidio County) 250

Snyder (Scurry County) 250

Sonora (Sutton County) 251

Tascosa (Oldham County) 252

Uvalde (Uvalde County) 254

Van Horn (Culberson County) 256

Vernon (Wilbarger County) 257

Waco (McLennan County) 259

Weatherford (Parker County) 262

Wichita Falls (Wichita County) 263

Index 265

About the Author 303

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