Fort McKavett State Historic Site
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Illustrated History of Texas Forts
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The word "fort" is defined as "a strong or fortified place." The inhabitants of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas often depended on such places of protection from their enemies for survival.
As a northern province of Mexico, an independent republic, and finally as a state of both the Union and the Confederacy, Texas was contested ground for much of its early history. The Mexicans fought the Spanish for control of Texas; the Anglos fought the Mexicans for possession of Texas and then fought each other. The Native Americans fought everybody. In each conflict, whether short and savage in duration or protracted and bloody, one side often fought from "a strong or fortified place."
This guide presents over one hundred Texas forts and camps in the order that they came into being, and illustrates their history with period drawings, plans, and maps.