AMERICA'S WESTERN FRONTIER

Compiled and posted by Bennie J. McRae, Jr.

***** Past and Present *****

Sharon Heist's Arizona Mountains

2785 Farm Road 1050
Concan, Texas

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BOOK

Back in Boley
by Sheila P. Jennifer

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"Buffalo Soldiers and Scouts" E Troop, 10th U. S. Cavalry Fort Verde, Arizona Territory - (2006) Photo by Linus Hinton
Of Apricots, Sardines and Soldiers By Sharon Heist	The Ballad of E Troop By Sharon Heist

Photos by Sharon Heist

FAMILY OF WEB SITES AND INDEX PAGES

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

***** EVENTS *****

REINTERMENT CEREMONY

Martiriano Aguirre

Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery
December 1, 2006

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"Company B of the 125th United States Colored Infantry, under First Lt. James M. Kerr, established Fort Bayard on August 21, 1866. The location was a "beautiful situation on the eastern slope of the Pinos Altos Mountains," where wood, water, and forage was abundant (HQ Military Division of the Missouri 1876). Along with those same lines, Maj. Gen. John Pope commanding officer of the Military Division of the Missouri recorded:

I have established only one new post on the Apache frontier, and that is located near the head of the Mimbres River, about one hundred and fifty miles west of the Rio Grande. This post, with Fort Cummings at Cook Spring, Fort Selden on the Rio Grande, Fort Staton on the Bonito River between the Rio Grande and the Pecos, form a line of posts covering the southern frontier of New Mexico from the Apache Indians (Myers n.d.,p.808)

The 125th US Colored Troops was first organized at Louisville, Kentucky, between February and June of 1865. With the men enlisting for three years, they were sent west in 1866. Individual companies were stationed at Forts Cummings, Bayard, and Pinos Altos. By the end of August there were approximately 50 enlisted men at Fort Bayard, but by October of that year, the number had increased to more than 200 men." EXCERPT - HISTORICAL INFORMATION ON FORT BAYARD, NEW MEXICO

BRACKETTVILLE AND FORT CLARK, TEXAS

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NORTHERN MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS

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William "Dub" Warrior (right) and other supporting cast
members of the movie "Streets of Laredo."
(Courtesy: William "Dub" Warrior - Del Rio, Texas)

2-Horse George

MILITARY RECORDS AND VETERANS REFERENCE DESK

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THE WEST 1865-1897

Herb Jeffries and Tony Dorty

A SALUTE TO HERB JEFFRIES

Ed Keelocko
Cowtown's Mayor and Trail Boss

ROUNDUP AT COWTOWN KEEYLOCKO, ARIZONA

"Regrettably, many of the accomplishments and sagas of African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans and Asian Americans have never been told in book form. There is a need for the total history of the American West to be told so there will be a more complete picture. Members of these groups played a crucial role in the development of our nation, and the West is no exception," Art T. Burton, author of the books, "Black, Red and Deadly" and "Black, Buckskin and Blue"

ART T. BURTON'S WESTERN FRONTIER

Katarina Wittich

MASCOGOS AND SEMINOLE NEGRO INDIAN SCOUTS

BLACK SEMINOLES, FREEDMEN, MASCOGOS AND SEMINOLE NEGRO INDIAN SCOUTS

HISTORIC WESTERN FRONTIER FORTS

LINKS TO OLD WEST FORTS AND TOWNS

SPECIAL WEB SITES

FREEDMEN OF THE FRONTIER

THE AFRICAN NATIVE GENEALOGY HOMEPAGE

THE CHOCTAW FREEDMEN OF OKLAHOMA

BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS OF THE TRANS MISSISSIPPI WEST