Fort Selden, N.M. [1886]

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Fort Selden, N.M. [1886]

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Manuscript plan of Fort Selden, a post in the U.S. Army. Military Division of the Missouri; located in the twentieth century county of Doña Ana, New Mexico. Includes key numbered 1-23. Accompanied, in the next folder, by an unsigned two page description of the region dated 1886. Forms part of the Papers of U.S. cavalry officer Benjamin Henry Grierson (Ayer MS 3039 box 9).

1 ms. map : cloth ; 164 x 101 mm.

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