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Bookmark or Share- Fort Sumner, New Mexico - WikipediaNamed after former New Mexico Territory military governor Edwin Vose Sumner, U.S. Fort Sumner was a military fort established in 1862 and charged with the internment of nearby Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863 to 1868.
- Fort Sumner - WikipediaFort 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.
- Fort Sumner - New Mexico Tourism - Travel & Vacation GuideWelcome to Fort Sumner! ADDRESS: 173 E. Avenue C Fort Sumner, New Mexico 88119. REGION: SouthEast. PHONE: 575-355-2401. VISIT WEBSITE. Billy the Kid Museum. The federal government closed the fort in 1868, and sold its buildings to Lucien Maxwell, a prominent New Mexico landowner, in 1870.
- Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic SiteFrom 1863 to 1868, Fort Sumner, New Mexico was the center of a million-acre parcel known as the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation. The history of how the U.S. Army used scorched earth policies to forcibly remove Diné (Navajo) and Ndé (Mescalero Apache) people from their traditional homelands to this lonely, inhospitable outpost along the ...
- Fort Sumner, New Mexico – Pride of the Pecos - Legends of AmericaHistoric Fort Sumner, New Mexico. On October 31, 1862, Congress authorized the establishment of the military Fort Sumner at Bosque Redondo, to protect a new Indian Reservation situated on 40 square miles of land. The post was named for General Edwin Vose Sumner who died as the new fort was being built.
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