Military reservation of Fort Selden, N.M. [1886]

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Military reservation of Fort Selden, N.M. [1886]

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Manuscript map of the Fort Selden region (in the twentieth century county of Doña Ana, New Mexico). Accompanied, in the next folder, by an unsigned two page description of the area dated 1886. Forms part of the Papers of U.S. cavalry officer Benjamin Henry Grierson (Ayer MS 3039 box 9).

1 ms. map : cloth ; 81 x 82 mm.

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