Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier

This book, which was first published in 1952, first began as a history of San Angelo and the adjacent region drained by the Conchos rivers. It grew, in writing, into a history of West Texas. It embodies author J. Evetts Haley's unequaled knowledge of the country from the Rio Grande to the Canadian, from San Antonio and Austin to the border of New Mexico.
It could have been written only by a man familiar by personal acquaintance with the location of every water hole and spring, the explorat...