Life in early New Mexico was often perilous.
Kit Carson, John Pershing and Billy the Kid all called Fort Stanton home, before it became the first federal tuberculosis s.
These strongholds include Fort Craig, where logs were made to look like cannons to fool Confederate troops. government set up military Forts and Outposts to protect its new citizens.
In response, the U.
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Geographic isolation attracted outlaws and ruffians, and skirmishes often arose between the indigenous tribes and settlers.
Life in early New Mexico was often perilous