Fort BASCOM: Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley

by James Bailey Blackshear

Motorists traveling along State Highway 104 north of Tucumcari, New Mexico, may notice a sign indicating the location of Fort Bascom. The post itself is long gone, its adobe walls washed away. In 1863, the United States, fearing a second Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory from Texas, built Fort Bascom. Until 1874, the troops stationed at this site on the Eroded Plains along the Canadian River defended Hispanic and Anglo-American settlements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806152095
• ISBN13: 9780806152097
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"