104°11′41″W / 34.40194°N 104.19472°W / 34.40194; -104.19472 Fort Sumner was a military fort in New Mexico Territory charged with the internment of Navajo...
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Fort Sumner is a village in and the county seat of De Baca County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,031 at the 2010 U.S. Census, down from...
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Fort Sumner may refer to: Fort Sumner, a historic fort in New Mexico Fort Sumner, New Mexico, a town near the fort in New Mexico Fort Sumner Municipal...
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than two months. Garrett shot and killed Bonney, by then aged 21, in Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881. During the decades following his death, legends grew...
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Fort Sumner Municipal Schools is a school district headquartered in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. It consists of three schools: Fort Sumner Elementary School...
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Fort Sumner was built during the American Civil War by the Union Army in the Brookmont section of Bethesda, Maryland, just northwest of Washington, D...
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Fort Sumner Municipal Airport (IATA: FSU, ICAO: KFSU, FAA LID: FSU) is a village owned, public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast...
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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...
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Maxwell then moved to Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory, which he purchased from the US government in 1869 when Fort Sumner was abandoned. Maxwell and...
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Fort Sumner was a coastal defense fortification on Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine, United States. It was built in 1794 as part of the first system of...
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Edwin Vose Sumner (January 30, 1797 – March 21, 1863) was a career United States Army officer who became a Union Army general and the oldest field commander...
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making it New Mexico's second-least populous county. Its county seat is Fort Sumner. The county is named for Ezequiel Cabeza De Baca, the second elected...
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Edwin Vose Sumner established Fort Defiance for the U.S. government (near present-day Window Rock, Arizona) and Fort Wingate (originally Fort Fauntleroy...
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is in Fort Sumner. Poe arrives in Roswell to find Garrett naked and in bed with several prostitutes, and confirms that Billy is in Fort Sumner. Garrett...
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supply. In 1866, having heard about the probable need for cattle at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where some eight thousand Native American Indians had been...
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Treaty of Bosque Redondo (redirect from Treaty of Fort Sumner)
(Spanish for "Round Forest") also the Navajo Treaty of 1868 or Treaty of Fort Sumner, Navajo Naal Tsoos Sani or Naaltsoos Sání) was an agreement between the...
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left Texas and rode to New Mexico Territory. When Garrett arrived at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, he found work as a bartender, then as a cowboy for Pedro...
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largest town of Lincoln, about forty miles south of the military post at Fort Sumner, with over 100,000 head of cattle. In the years immediately after the...
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reservations near Fort Sumner would make the drive profitable. With 18 cowpunchers, they brought 2,000 head of cattle to Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Over...
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Fort Defiance was established on September 18, 1851, by Col. Edwin V. Sumner to create a military presence in Diné bikéyah (Navajo territory). Sumner...
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still joined the rest of the gang on a mission to ambush Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner. A gun battle ensued, but Bowdre and most of the Kid's gang members escaped...
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The Fort Sumner Community House, at the Junction of U.S. Route 84 and Baker Avenue in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, was erected in 1939. It was listed on the...
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Minnesota Fort Sumner, New Mexico Lake Sumner, New Mexico Sumner College, Oregon Sumner Elementary School, in Topeka, Kansas Sumner Strait, Alaska Sumner Tunnel...
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The Fort Sumner Railroad Bridge, over the Pecos River 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, was built in 1905. It was listed on the National...
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northeastern edge of the CDP; the highway leads southeast 10 miles (16 km) to Fort Sumner, the De Baca County seat, and northwest 34 miles (55 km) to Santa Rosa...
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Oliver Loving and he drove their first herd of cattle from Fort Belknap (Texas) to Fort Sumner, along what would become known as the Goodnight-Loving Trail...
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before him – that Garrett had killed someone else. Local residents of Fort Sumner also immediately disputed the death of the Kid. Garrett hastily assembled...
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reservation along the Pecos River at Bosque Redondo, near present-day Fort Sumner. In Carleton's vision, the government would teach the hunting-and-gathering...
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advocates of peace. Col. Edwin Sumner conducted a campaign against the Navajo in 1851. He delegated Maj. Electus Backus to build Fort Defiance in the middle of...
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in 1868 to commemorate the release of the Navajo from internment at Fort Sumner. The song's lyrics express the elation of the Navajo people on the occasion...
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