Starting With Defiance: Nineteenth Century Arizona Military Posts

Description

Author: Altshuler, Constance Wynn  (1908-2000)

Publisher: Arizona Historical Society

Pub Date: 1983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  One small smudge to front board.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Previous owner covered the dust jacket in a clear plastic film, preserving the jacket but also its faults.  An approx. 1″ closed tear to upper front cover edge near spine head.  Wear to spine head and foot.  Spine sun-faded.  Some edge and corner wear.

Notes: From Camp Alexander to Fort Yuma, primarily covering the period 1849-1900, though some forts were used into the twentieth century (Whipple Barracks, e.g.).   Fort Huachuca is now the only active Army post in Arizona.   Lots of period photographs.   No listing for Fort Hellhole.