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148. Ibid., April 27, p. 1:4, May 4, 1871, p. 1:1.
149. Ryan to AAAG, September 20, 1871, Letters Sent, Roll 1.
150. Andy Gregg, Drums of Yesterday (Santa Fe: The Press of the Territorian, 1968), p. 28. The term shoddy, coined for anything of inferior value, was originally the name for a Civil War-era woolen cloth woven from reprocessed materials. Its durability was extremely poor.
151. Don Rickey, Jr., Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977), p. 127.
152. Fitch to Lyons, January 20, 1872, Letters Sent, Roll 1.
153. Wilson, Post Returns, p. 39.
154. Ibid., p. 41; Steelhammer to Sartle, February 17, Steelhammer to AAAG, March 3, 1872, Letters
Sent, Roll 1.
155. Richard C. Hindley, “Indian Country Fort,”
Your Public Lands, (Vol. unknown) (Washington: Department of the Interior, no date), p. 4; New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties, Ap-
plication for Registration - 0548, Las Cruces BLM, Fort Cummings File (Santa Fe: State Planning Of- fice, no date), p. 2.
156. Grant County Herald, March 6, 1875, p. 2:5. 157. Wilson, Post Returns, p. 43.
158. Frank D. Reeve (ed.), “Frederick E. Phelps:
A Soldiers Memoirs,” New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 25 (Apr., 1950), pp. 127-130. Phelps sets the incident in 1871 but Humphries was not the post commander, or even at the post, until 1872. Therefore, the later date was selected as correct.
159. Wilson, Post Returns, pp. 44-45; Wilson, Fort Cummings, p. 3.
160. BLM, Historic Places, Part 7, p. 2.
161. Patricia K. Novak, Letter to the Author, August 24, 1988.
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