Fort Sumner, New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Monuments Division, 1974. Second Edition. Wraps. 20 pages. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Cover has some wear and soiling. Dr. Wilson undertook studies of cultural resource management in New Mexico,as well as published a number of work in the topical areas of New Mexico and the southwest United States. Fort Sumner was a military fort in New Mexico Territory charged with the internment of Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863-1868 at nearby Bosque Redondo. On October 31, 1862, Congress authorized the construction of Fort Sumner. General James Henry Carleton initially justified the fort as offering protection to settlers in the Pecos River valley from the Mescalero Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche. He also created the Bosque Redondo reservation, a 1,600-square-mile area where over 9,000 Navajo and Mescalero Apaches were provided to live because of accusations that they were raiding white settlements near their respective homelands. The fort was named for General Edwin Vose Sumner. In 1968—one 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. The property is now managed by the New Mexico Historic Sites (formerly State Monuments) division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. On June 4, 2005, a new museum designed by Navajo architect David N. Sloan was opened on the site as the Bosque Redondo Memorial.
The Bosque Redondo Memorial and Fort Sumner Historic Site are located 6.5 miles southeast of Fort Sumner, New Mexico: 3 miles east on U.S. Route 60/U.S. Route 84, then 3.5 miles south on Billy The Kid Road. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Fort Sumner, New Mexico, Henry Davis Wallen, Prisoners, Indian Reservation, Navajo, Apaches, Bosque Redondo, Christopher Carson, Kit Carson
[Book #76583]
Price: $37.50