Fort Clark - Pleasantly Surprised at the Edge of the Texas Frontier
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2022
- Fort Clark lies about 2 hours west of San Antonio, near the edge of the west Texas desert region. One of the features that makes this area special is Las Moras Spring and Creek, which form an oasis in this part of the state. The history of this fort is fascinating, and the remains are beautiful. Join me as I tour it for the first time.
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One of your best videos. Thanks for taking us along.
When I have passengers that are interested in Texas history and travel ideas, I always mention your channel.
Thank You!
My Dad was stationed there.
Thanks
I stayed in the barracks in the mid '70's. Summer vacation. Loved it as a kid and now I think I want to go back again.
Absolutely Awesome Video Sir About Texas History
I really like your videos Sir. I feel Texas calling.
Visit every year...this is the best video on Ft. Clark Springs!
Very Cool Video, I lived at Ft. Clark for 3 months while we were filming "Alamo the Price of Freedom."
I was the Production Designer, that was in 1987.
My residents had just been restored; it was the first building front & west of the parade ground.
I believe I recall it had been quatres for Captains & Majors.
The very good restaurant just short walk away. I swam often in the huge spring fed pool.
In the evening deer would be out on the parade grounds.
Your video brings back good memories. I visited the Seminole Graves where there were two Buffalo Soldier Medal of Honor recipient's buried...
My family & mother stayed in barracks hotel, years ago. have visited couple times in Years back. pool was full at time, but too cool for swimming at time.
Great stop. thanks for memory
Love the places you show us
Thanks for the video. My grandfather was stationed at Ft. Clark in 1919.
I’m so glad you stopped by the cemetery. Once when I was about 17 my friend and I were looking through cemetery log book, and found Hunter S. Thompson had signed in, with another Thompson signed in below him.
There is a road around there called Tularosa rd, that goes to west prong of the nueces river , that passes through Grass Valley Draw. The stars at night in the draw are unbelievably thick.
Excellent!!! Thank you for doing what you do....a very enjoyable and informative series!
In 1971 there was State Historical Marker in front of a building stating it was an 1850s headquarters building for the 2d Cavalry Regiment. The marker mentioned LTC Robert E. Lee. If memory serves correctly, it was in front of the structure you said is now referred to as a "mess hall" built by "Buffalo Soldiers".....
Thank you for the tour. I have passed by Fort Clarke many times but I have yet to visit.
Great fort..way out in the middle of no where( in those days). Interesting.
Love this place! I stayed at the hotel there in March and the year before I brought my camper and stayed in a private rv lot. Love the history!!
Amazing! Your tours are fantastic, the historic sites are great.
Brackettville also has an enclave of Gullah-speaking residents, descendants the Buffalo Soldiers, rediscovered by University of Texas at Austin linguistician Ian MacGregor 40 or 50 years ago.
Great tour & narration 💀👍
I've enjoyed seeing parts of Texas that I might never be able to get to. And you do such a wonderful job of giving the history also. Thank you for all you do.
My wife and I have been to Fort Clark many times through the years with the last time being about twelve years ago to sell some property there in her parents' estate. It has been greatly improved in the ensuing years. A shame the water levels are so low because the presence of plentiful water totally transforms the overall beauty of the area.
As now displaced Texans, retired elsewhere, we love your videos. But as an old Army NCO I have one suggestion: the term for mounted troops is CAV-al-ry, with a short "a" in the first syllable. It is not CALV-a-ry, which is a biblical term. 😉
Keep up the good work...
My grand father was in one of the last mounted cavalry troop stationed there 1914 /15 and they were the first US border patroll
I didn't know half this stuff was here I'm surprised Jaco's Well isn't on here
I seem to have known those Clark's
I went to Fort Clarke the day I was there everything was locked up. May have predated the hotel. That same day we went to Alamo Village. I don't believe you can get out there anymore. By the way it was where the John Wayne movie Alamo was filmed and many movies and videos since
Me and my family and we have this car over 40 years. I came out from Dallas and went to work at radio company and started a pest control business for 34 years got sick and had to move the northeast Texas
The pool is now open.
A lot of people don’t know that some Indian tribes held black slaves. Cherokee tribe had 3times more black slaves per capita than the south antibellum
U.S --Mexico War....We Never went to war with the Mexican-Americans............OR Did We??
The vultures your seeing are Mexican eagles, I live in Fort Clark Springs