This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Fort Union NM a long gone frontier bastion and monument
Fort Union New Mexico once stood as a vital defense and supply hub along the Santa Fe Trail. Built 1851 to protect commerce and fight plains tribes, it evolved into a major quartermaster depot with a large hospital, then declined after the railroad reached the territory and was abandoned in 1891.
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Fort Union
New Mexico
Las Vegas
Watrous
William Becknell
Colorado
Bent’s Fort
Cimarron
Oklahoma Panhandle
Mountain Branch
United States
Edwin V. Sumner
Military Department of
Sumner
Fort Marcy
Santa Fe
U.S
Mora
9Th Military District
Texas
Glorieta
Modate
U.S. Army