San Angelo
Wells Fargo Wagon
Fort Concho
What all Texas forts should look like


San Angelo has every right to be proud of their fort. Fort Concho is well kept and used. Here you see a demonstration of chuck wagon cooking. Once you get the hang of it it is pretty easy. Cooking biscuits in an iron skillet isn't the only thing you can so. There are plenty of delicious deserts you can woop up if yer a mind to. Upside down cakes, coffee cakes, just about any mouth-watering cake you can think up. Baking is an art and this is the place to learn how.

There is so much to show you and I don't have the room to do so. I will post a few shots to give you an idea what you can expect when you visit Fort Concho during an event.


A helmet tip to San Angelo for their outstanding Fort Concho restoration!
I think of Wishbone, played by Paul Brinegar in the TV hit Rawhide.
Cavalry is here.
Playing old-time baseball. Yes, they did play baseball then.
Crawford Texas
A young bag-piper –
In battle he was highly sought-after.
The pipes could put unspeakable fear into the hearts of the enemy.
Coffee Station
Country Lady – out for a ride.
FORT CONCHO


THE CENTER OF A LINE OF FORTS EXTENDING FROM THE
NORTH EASTERN BORDER OF TEXAS TO ELPASO. WAS ALSO
NORTHERN POINT OF THE SOUTHERN CHAIN OF FORTS EXTENDING
TO RIO GRANDE, THENCE ALONG THE RIVER TO ITS MOUTH.
EXTABLISHED 1867 (AT THEN JUNCTION OF BUTTERFIELD
TRAIL, GOODNIGHT TRAIL AND ROAD TO SAN ANTONIO) BY 4TH
CAVALRY UNDER CAPT. GEORGE G. HUNTT TO PROTECT FRONTIER.

BY MARCH 1, 1870, FORT BUILDINGS WERE (IN ORDER OF
THEIR CONSTRUCTION) A COMMISSARY AND QUARTERMASTER
STOREHOUSE, HOSPITAL, FIVE OFFICERS' QUARTERS, A
MAGAZINE AND TWO BARRACKS — ALL BUILT OF SANDSTONE.

AMOUNG THOSE WHO COMMANDED POST WERE: GEN. WM. R.
SHAFTER (LATER MAJOR GENERAL OF VOLUNTEERS, SPANISH –
AMERIAN WAR; COMMANDED TROOPS AT CAPTURE OF SANTIAGO
DE CUBA, JULY 1898); MAJ. JOHN P. HATCH (AT ONE TIME FORT
COMMANDER OF FORT DAVIS AFTER CIVIL WAR; WAS LATER
SUPERINTENDENT OF U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT);
GEN. RANALD SLIDELL MACKIENZIE (WHO LED ATTACKS, FROM
THIS AND OTHER FORTS, CREDITED WITH DEFEAT OF INDIAN
RESISTANCE IN SOUTHWEST); AND GEN. GENJAMIN H. GRIERSON,
COMMANDER OF NEGRO TROOPS OF 10TH CAVALRY.

ON JUNE 20, 1889, FORT WAS ABANDONED AS A MILITARY
POST AND PROPERTY PASSED INTO PRIVATE OWNERSHIP
(1970)

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Coffee Station
Historical signs are educational.
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Trick Roper
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THE TENTH CAVALRY


FOLLOWING THE CIVIL WAR, THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS
AUTHORIZED THE CREATION OF SIX REGIMENTS OF BLACK U.S.
ARMY TROOPS. THE TENTH CAVALRY WAS ORGANIZED IN
1867 UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF COL. BENJAMIN GRIERSON
(1826 – 1911). THE ORDER CREATING BLACK TROOPS ALSO
SPECIFIED THAT THEY WOULD BE COMMANDED BY WHITE
OFFICERS. FACING PROBLEMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AT
THE REGIMENT'S HEADQUARTERS IN FORT LEAVENWORTH,
KANSAS, GRIERSON WANTED THE TENTH CAVALRY REASSIGNED
TO THE WEST, AND THEY ARRIVED AT FORT CONCHO IN THE
SPRING OF 1875

THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE MEN OF THE TENTH CAVLRY
TO THE SETTLEMENT OF THE AMERICAN WEST ARE OF
MAJOR IMPORTANCE. THEY TOOK PART IN GRUELING SCOUTING
AND MAPPING EXPEDITIONS AND CAMPAIGNS AGAINST HOSTILE
INDIANS. OFTEN FACING DAYS WITHOUT PROPER SUPPLIES OR
WATER ON THE HIGH PLAINS. THEY WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN
THE DEFEAT OF THE MESCALERO APACH INDIANS LED BY
CHIEF VICTORIO IN 1880.

THE MEN OF THE TENTH CAVALRY WERE STATIONED AT
FORT CONCHO UNTIL 1882, WHEN THEY WERE MOVED TO FORT
DAVIS. TRANSFERRED FREQUENTLY AFTER 1885, MEMBER OF
THE UNIT EVENTUALLY SERVED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,
INCLUDING CUBA, NORTH AFRICA, GERMANY, KOREA AND VIETNAM.

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 The Tenth Cavalry


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