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Frontier Forts and Outposts of New Mexico

Frontier Forts and Outposts of New Mexico

Birchell, Donna Blake

Paperback

Series: Military

Technology & EngineeringArmed ForcesRegional: Southwest

Publisher Price: $23.99

ISBN10: 1467140783
ISBN13: 9781467140782
Publisher: History Press (SC)
Published: Nov 25 2019
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The frontier spirit of New Mexico is celebrated in this memorable history of over two dozens forts and military outposts.

Life in early New Mexico was often perilous. Geographic isolation attracted outlaws and ruffians, and skirmishes often arose between the indigenous tribes and settlers. In response, the U.S. government set up military forts and outposts to protect its new citizens. These strongholds include Fort Craig, where logs were made to look like cannons to fool Confederate troops. Kit Carson, John Pershing and Billy the Kid all called Fort Stanton home, before it became the first federal tuberculosis sanatorium and later a detention center for German prisoners of war. Author Donna Blake Birchell relates little-known yet highly important Civil War battles, the tragedies of the Navajo and Mescalero Apache internments and other dramatic frontier stories.

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