Fort Selden, 1865-1891 : the birth, life, and death of a frontier fort in New Mexico
(2009)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Sunstone Press, 2009
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781611395327 MWT15663702, 1611395321 15663702
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Fort Selden was a small frontier fort built in 1865 with the mission of protecting the citizens of the Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico. This book tells the story of Fort Selden's beginning, its years of service, and its eventual abandonment. Throughout Fort Selden's history, its troopers conducted patrols, provided escort for wagon trains, and chased horse thieves, bandits, and Apaches through spring dust storms, drenching rains, winter cold, and other hardships to accomplish their mission. The story of the fort is told through the military reports and messages of the commanders and personal letters of the soldiers
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