A View from the Fort
by Lynn Sprowl
Title
A View from the Fort
Artist
Lynn Sprowl
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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A View from the Fort. It would have been exciting to look out these windows (loopholes) and see wagon trains or Indians camped here.
This non-military fort was one of the most significant outposts on the Santa Fe Trail and as the principal outpost of American civilization on the southwestern Plains, was instrumental in shaping the destiny of the area. In the heart of Indian country, buffalo hunting grounds and at the crossroads of key overland routes, it was a fur trading center and rendezvous point for traders and Indians; a way station and supply center for emigrants and caravans; and the chief point of contact and cultural transmission between white settlers and Indians of the southern Plains. In its later years it was a military staging base for the U.S. conquest of New Mexico.
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June 21st, 2015
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