The Dancing Was Lively. Fort Concho, Texas: A Social History, 1867 To 1882

BILL GREEN

Publication: Fort Concho Sketches Publishing Co, 1974, San Angelo

First edition. 8vo. Limited to 1,000 copies. Cloth, titles printed in dark brown on the front cover and spine, xiv, 146 pp., preface, introduction, notes, illustrations from photographs and drawings, map, bibliography, index. Author tapped new sources to provide this look at frontier military social life and to give us an interesting look at how the post resident's fought boredom and loneliness. Chapters on shelter and sanitation; supply; daily routine, social life and diversions. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.