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Fort Sumner was a military fort in New Mexico Territory charged with the internment of Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863 to 1868 at nearby Bosque Redondo.
Fort Sumner is located northeast of the center of De Baca County on the north side of the Pecos River. U.S. Route 60 passes through the village as Sumner Avenue, leading east 61 miles (98 km) to Clovis [12] and west 58 miles (93 km) to Vaughn. [13] U.S. Route 84 comes in from the north as 4th Street, leading northwest 44 miles (71 km) to Santa ...
The Fort Sumner Cemetery Wall and Entry, at 17th and Dunn Sts, 1 mile north of intersection of 17th and U.S. 60 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, was a Works Progress Administration project in 1938 and 1939. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1] [2]
Buried: Old Fort Sumner Cemetery. Fort Sumner, New Mexico. A notorious outlaw of the Wild West, Billy the Kid was shot and killed for his crimes when he was only 21. He was orphaned as a teenager ...
Navajo under guard at Bosque Redondo. Following conflicts between the Navajo and US forces, and scorched earth tactics employed by Kit Carson, which included the burning of tribal crops and livestock, James Henry Carleton issued an order in 1862 that all Navajo would relocate to the Bosque Redondo Reservation [b] near Fort Sumner, in what was then the New Mexico Territory.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Fort Stanton; Fort Sumner; T. Fort Thorn, New Mexico; Battle of Fort ...
Maxwell then moved to Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory, which he purchased from the US government in 1869 when Fort Sumner was abandoned. Maxwell and his family renovated the former officers' quarters into a beautiful Spanish Colonial house surrounding a large inner courtyard. Maxwell died at Fort Sumner in 1875 and was buried nearby.
With 18 cowpunchers, they brought 2,000 head of cattle to Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Over 8,000 Navajo had been interned at the Bosque Redondo reservation under the control of the fort, but due to the poor conditions on the reservation for agriculture and inadequate planning by the US authorities for provisions, the demand for new food supplies ...