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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.
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.
Bowdre was born in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1848, the firstborn child of Albert and Lucy Bowdre. When he was three years old, he and his parents moved to DeSoto County, Mississippi, where they had six more children (Eppie in 1854, Sallie in 1855, Volney and Benjamin in 1857, William in 1863 and Lucy Lee in 1863). [1]
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 ...
He was shot in the chest by sheriff Pat Garrett on December 19, 1880, at Fort Sumner, dying approximately 45 minutes later. He was interred at Old Fort Sumner Cemetery in a plot he later shared with Bonney and Charlie Bowdre. [1] As in the photo's caption, Tom's last name was "Folliard," not "O'Folliard." "O" was his middle initial.
Portrait of John Simpson Chisum (1824–1884), taken from The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado (1907) [1]. John Simpson Chisum (August 15, 1824 – December 22, 1884) was a wealthy cattle baron on the frontier in the American West in the mid-to-late 19th century.
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 ...
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 ...