File:Fort Davis National Historic Site, Texas (274c5f18-8022-4354-80f9-6c0c7940824c).jpg

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English: Fort Davis National Historic Site, Texas
Photographer
English: NPS staff
Title
English: Fort Davis National Historic Site, Texas
Publisher
English: National Park Service
Description
English:

Historical reenactment of calvary riders

Set in the rugged beauty of the Davis Mountains of west Texas, Fort Davis is one of America's best surviving examples of an Indian Wars' frontier military post in the Southwest. From 1854 to 1891, Fort Davis was strategically located to protect emigrants, mail coaches, and freight wagons on the Trans-Pecos portion of the San Antonio-El Paso Road and the Chihuahua Trail, and to control activities on the southern stem of the Great Comanche War Trail and Mescalero Apache war trails. Fort Davis is important in understanding the presence of African Americans in the West and in the frontier military because the 24th and 25th U.S. Infantry and the 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry, all-black regiments established after the Civil War, were stationed at the post.

  • Keywords: foda; Forts; Wars with the Indians; American history; Interpretation; National historic sites
Depicted place
English: Fort Davis National Historic Site, Jeff Davis County, Texas
Date Taken on 13 January 2003
Accession number
274c5f18-8022-4354-80f9-6c0c7940824c
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English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
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English: Fort Davis National Historic Site
NPS Unit Code
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FODA
Legacy NPS Focus Record ID
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231532

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