Carl Coke Rister

1889 – 1955

• Border Command
• Comanche bondage
• Land hunger
• Oil
• Robert E. Lee in Texas
• Southern plainsmen
• The southwestern frontier--1865-1881
• Baptist missions among the American Indians
• Border captives
• Border command, General Phil Sheridan in the West
• Fort Griffin on the Texas frontier
• Land hunger: David L. Payne and the Oklahoma boomers