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This illustration, from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, shows the first Commanding Officers' Quarters at Fort Dodge, Kansas. The military fort was established in 1865 by Captain Henry Pierce, a member of the 11th Kansas, to protect the United States mail and emigrant wagon trains on the Santa Fe Trail. The facility was located on the left bank of the Arkansas River on the "Long Route" of the Santa Fe Trail a few miles southeast of present day Dodge City, Kansas.
Date: June 1869
Item Number: 447870
Call Number: FK2.F2 FD.75 *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 447870
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Military
Built Environment - Function - Defense - Military Facility - Officers' quarters
Built Environment - Materials - Earth - Sod
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1861-1869
Military - Facilities - Forts - Fort Dodge
Military - Facilities - Officers' quarters
Military - Service - Army
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Counties - Ford
Places - Forts and military installations - Fort Dodge
Places - Rivers - Arkansas
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Trails - Santa Fe
Type of Material - Photographs
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