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A hundred years after the signing of the treaty that allowed the Navajo people to return to their original homes in the Four Corners region, Fort Sumner was declared a New Mexico State Monument in 1968. The property is now managed by the New Mexico Historic Sites (formerly State Monuments) division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Garrett surrendered to the authorities at Fort Griffin, Texas, but they declined to prosecute. [1]: 29–31 When buffalo hunting declined, Garrett left Texas and rode to New Mexico Territory. [4] [5] When Garrett arrived at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, he found work as a bartender, then as a cowboy for Pedro Menard "Pete" Maxwell.
Fort Sumner is a village in and the county seat of De Baca County, New Mexico, United States. [4] The population was 1,031 at the 2010 U.S. Census, [5] down from the figure of 1,249 recorded in 2000. Fort Sumner is the spring and fall home of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility.
More than 500 vehicles were estimated to have driven in a funeral procession that escorted Sumner County Sheriff Roy "Sonny" Weatherford from Long Hollow Church to Crestview Funeral Home in ...
Nov. 11—A Fort Sumner man last week pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the May 2021 death of 16-year-old Ricardo Gonzales. Xavier Lucero, 18 at the time of the incident ...
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]
Grave marker for Billy The Kid, also at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. In 1931, Charles W. Foor, an unofficial tour guide at Fort Sumner Cemetery, campaigned to raise funds for a permanent marker for the graves of Bonney, O'Folliard, and Bowdre. As a result of his efforts, a stone memorial marked with the names of the three men and their death dates ...
Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 [1] – December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) also known as William Henry Roberts, [2] Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie N. Roberts, or Ollie L. Roberts, was an American man who attracted attention in the late 1940s and the 1950s by claiming to be Western outlaw William H. Bonney, (who actually died in 1881).