Fort Worth Frontier and Forts Days

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Jefferson Davis, as Secretary of War,under Franklin Pierce authorized camels from Egypt to serve with the U.S. Cavalry on the Texas frontier in May of 1856 to explore options for Westward expansion.

Summary of the event:
Over 2,000 school children attended the event on Friday May 8, as part of field trips on living history for the Fort Worth Frontier and Forts Days and Jefferson Davis Bicentennial. An additional 600 secondary level students from the Texas State School for the Deaf attended. On Saturday, the typical tourist /family crowd visited with over 30 exhibits presented of Texas history from the 1850s to 1870s.

Volunteers, re-enactors and artists with all the Texas flags for the period were represented on the grounds of the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards; soldiers in period dress,, ladies spinning, quilting, soap making, corn husk dolls making, basket weaving, music, medical, as well as a host of military forts, tents, horses and armory.

The Texas General Land Office sold historical map replicas suitable for framing. The TGLO offered a Confederate Script Voucher granting 1, 280 acres through the land grant program to Confederate veterans who were permanently disabled, or their windows.

Of course, the Texas Camel Corps was represented in period dress and reviewed by Bertram Hayes-Davis on parade as Jefferson Davis, as Secretary of War. There was even a Vintage baseball game with participants in period dress between forts on Saturday.

Long horn cattle were driven down the parade route by black cowboys along with trailing Indians in full dress. An old time stage followed with cowboy re-enactors, and uniformed soldiers in period dress.

The annual event is testimonial to the pride the State of Texas takes in their History as History.

Something I think for Mississippi to consider with the Agricultural Museum as the center piece and the grounds for exhibits and tents.
Selby



Dr. Selby Parker, Clinton resident, and Richard, of The Texas Camel Corps. on the grounds of the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards.



Richard is taking special note of Parker's novel, The Camel Boy, a novel about the Civil War. Both were invited to participate in the 8th Annual Fort Worth Frontier and Forts Days and the Jefferson Davis Bicentennial by the Fort Worth Texas Civil War Museum.