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Fort Sumner was abandoned in 1869 and purchased by rancher and cattle baron Lucien Maxwell. Maxwell rebuilt one of the officers' quarters into a 20-room house. On July 14, 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett shot and killed Billy the Kid in this house, now referred to as the Maxwell House.
The Treaty of Bosque Redondo between the United States and many of the Navajo leaders was concluded at Fort Sumner on June 1, 1868. Some of the provisions included establishing a reservation, restrictions on raiding, a resident Indian Agent and agency, compulsory education for children, the supply of seeds, agricultural implements and other ...
The museum at Fort Sumter focuses on the activities at the fort, including its construction and role during the Civil War. April 12, 2011, marked the 150th Anniversary of the start of the Civil War. There was a commemoration of the events by thousands of Civil War reenactors with encampments in the area.
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.
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 ...
Oct. 17—A Fort Sumner double-homicide suspect remains in the DeBaca County jail on his attorney's advice as the two men prepare for the defendant's preliminary hearing. Kelby Randolph, 53, was ...
The three men were buried at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. [ 23 ] The Posse Comitatus Act , signed into law June 18, 1878, would have prevented the use of federal troops for domestic law enforcement, but President Hayes invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807 on October 7.
Fort Monroe, where slaves were first brought to the U.S. colonies, served the Union in Confederate territory. ... Liliana Garza, left, and Malaundra Cook, students in Allison's AP African American ...