A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887In a Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849 1887, Ty Cashion surveys the formative development of northwest Texas where the Clear Fork of the Brazos cuts a path between the timbered region and the treeless plains beyond. Despite the unfamiliar and often harsh environment, the first pioneers mainly southern stock raisers persisted through conflicts with Plains Indians, the Civil War, Reconstruction, outlawry, rapid settlement,