South — Fort filing

Forts with a file in Texas

7 Texas dossiers cover ground that already gave its account — muster rolls, casualty lists, after-action reports — and then kept filing. Figures on the field, sounds in the works, presences attributed to documented deaths. The archive keeps the two records in separate columns and notes where witnesses claim they meet.

7 dossiers0 counties covered100% open to visitorsFort Davis — deepest file

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Fort Davis

Fort Davis, Texas

The best-preserved frontier fort in the Southwest—1854, in the Davis Mountains.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Concho

San Angelo, Texas

The 1867 fort that anchored San Angelo—and its buffalo soldiers.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Richardson

Jacksboro, Texas

The 1867 fort where the Warren Wagon Train raid changed the Plains wars.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Griffin

The 1867 fort above "the Flat"—the hideout town below.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Phantom Hill

The 1851 fort that burned days after its garrison left—ruins since 1854.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Leaton

Presidio, Texas

The 1848 adobe trading fort on the Rio Grande—Ben Leaton’s empire.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort McKavett

The 1852 fort "on top of the hill"—one of the best-preserved frontier posts.

1 claim · 1 legend→

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