Fort Phantom Hill: The Mysterious Ruins on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River - Paperback

by Bill Wright (Author), William Parker Wright (Author)

The lonely chimneys of Fort Phantom Hill in Jones County have given many visitors silent testimony to the travails of settlers when the area was on the very western frontier of Texas. In Fort Phantom Hill: The Mysterious Ruins on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, Bill Wright traces the history of the fort's founding in the mid-nineteenth century. Along the way, Wright introduces the instrumental people who had vital roles in the fort's founding, abandonment, and throughout its various incarnations from the 1850s onward..

Author Biography

Nationally known author and photographer BILL WRIGHT has published five previous books, including Portraits from the Desert: Bill Wright's Big Bend, People's Lives: A Celebration of the Human Spirit, and the award-winning The Tiguas: Pueblo Indians of Texas. He has exhibited his award-winning photographs internationally and in the United States in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions. He is a member and former president of the Philosophical Society of Texas. Bill and his wife reside in Abilene, Texas.