February 27, 2000
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Site Highlights:
Few visitors
Modest entry fee
No hiking
Ruins of adobe walls
Great museum
Variety of artifacts
Informative videos
Lots of old pictures
Look at soldiers life
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| Snipets of Fort Life | ||
| In the 1870's, military fort life, especially in the western outposts, was at best a boring, grueling, and lonely existance. Shortage of food resulted in a poor and incomplete diet; daily regimen was hard and demanding; and medical care was totally inadequate. This lifestyle drew the adventuresome and the disenfranchised.
To give today's reader a sense of what a soldier had to deal with, consider this observation of a Fort Selden surgeon in 1870 regarding the provisions available. |
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| Site Gallery |
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We remember those who served. |
| Gallery of Remembrance |
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Honoring the Buffalo Soldiers. |
| For More Information |
| The New Mexico Database of Cultural Holdings (Parks and Monuments) Navigate to Fort Selden using the "search option"
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