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Fort Phantom Hill: The Mysterious Ruins on the Clear Fork of The Brazos River
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Bill Wright William Parker Wright

Fort Phantom Hill

The Mysterious Ruins on the Clear Fork of The Brazos River

Bill Wright,  William Parker Wright

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State House Press
24 October 2013
History of the Americas; Expeditions
The history of Fort Phantom Hill is an interesting saga of defense, a story of both political necessity and individual hubris, and a tale of human perseverance and shortsightedness. The story of the “Post on the Brazos River” has all the elements that characterize human activity with its triumphs and tragedies, victories and defeats.

As time passed, circumstances dictated changing uses for the structures at Fort Phantom Hill, from military outpost to stage station to hunter’s outpost. Eventually, opportunities for adaptation ran their course and the stone structures fell into neglect. The frontier was occupied by new immigrants who possessed a more modern technology. The threat of Indians was replaced by the hard daily work of living in a semi-desert environment.

In Fort Phantom Hill: The Mysterious Ruins on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, Bill Wright weaves the threads of this story into the larger warp and weft of western history and shows how this small fort was conceived, lived, and died as an important part of the “winning of the West.”
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Imprint:   State House Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Digital Original ed.
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   266g
ISBN:   9781933337586
ISBN 10:   1933337583
Pages:   168
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Well-known American author and photographer Bill Wright has published five previous books, including Portraits from the Desert: Bill Wright’s Big Bend, People’s Lives: A Celebration of the Human Spirit, and the award-winning The Tiguas: Pueblo Indians of Texas. He has exhibited his award-winning photographs internationally and in the United States in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions. He is a member and former president of the Philosophical Society of Texas.

Reviews for Fort Phantom Hill: The Mysterious Ruins on the Clear Fork of The Brazos River

Bill Wright has done it again, with imagery and an eye for history. He has brought forward the story of Fort Phantom to the American saga. Donald S. Frazier PhD.


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