Fort Stanton, New Mexico: The Military Years, 1855-1896 (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Myers, Lee (1897-after 1988)

Publisher: Lincoln County Historical Society

Pub Date: 2007 (Revised edition)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1 (RM): Fair.  Perfect binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Previous owner’s blindstamp on upper corner title page.  Upper front cover edge has a small wrinkle, like it may have been caused by a drop of liquid.  Does not affect any of the text.  Light edge and corner wear.  Copy 2(RM): Fair.  Stapled binding, missing lower staple.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s blindstamp on upper corner title page.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet (54 pages).  “Book number 2 in a series of studies concerning the history of Lincoln County, New Mexico and its environs.”  Myers was an avocational historian, a veteran of World Wars I and II, and Korea.  He wrote more than a hundred articles and booklets.  Fort Stanton, 9 miles from Lincoln, New Mexico, was established in 1855, to protect civilians from the Mescalero Apaches, and was for a time home to the “Buffalo Soldiers” of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalries.  Illustrated with historical photos and maps.