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    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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    (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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