Fort Bascom: Soldiers, Comancheros and Indians in the Canadian River Valley

Fort Bascom ruins c1907 (Florence Surguy)

(Historynet) For a military post active only 11 years, Fort Bascom, which sat near present-day Tucumcari, N.M., saw a lot of history. Yet the outpost is mostly forgotten, the site of its long-eroded adobe walls indicated only by a historical marker on state Highway 104. Author James Bailey Blackshear, a history professor at Collin College in Plano, Texas, gives Fort Bascom its due in this well-researched book. Continued