For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books and journal articles in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research on military activities in the West. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.
See also the library guide in this series on New Mexico History
Books which include references to Fort
Burgwin (or Cantonment
Burgwin)
Forts and Supplies: The Role of the Army
in the Economy of the
Southwest, 1846-1861
(Frazer, 1983)
Forts and Forays: A Dragoon in New Mexico,
1850-1856 (Bennett, 1996 [1948])
Echoes of the Bugle: Forts of New Mexico
(Giese, 1991)
I Married a Soldier (Lane,
1987 [1893])
Mansfield on the Condition of the Western
Forts (Frazer, ed., 1963)
Old Forts of the Southwest (Hart,
1964)
Journal Articles on Fort Burgwin
"Cantonment Burgwin, New Mexico, 1852-1860,"
by Lawrence R. Murphy,
Arizona and the West
(15:1, 1973)
"Digs at Fort Burgwin Yield Historical Bounty,"
by Patricia Ann LaSalle,
New Mexico Magazine
(July
1990)
"Fort Burgwin's Hospital," by Anne I. Woosley
[former SMU-in-Taos Field
School Director], El
Palacio (86:1, 1980)
"The United States Army in Taos, 1847-1852,"
by Lawrence R. Murphy,
New Mexico Historical
Review (47:1, 1972)
"Where's the Beef? Food Supply at an Antebellum
Frontier Post," by David C.
Crass and Deborah L. Wallsmith
[authors received Ph.D.s in anthropology
from SMU],
Historical Archaeology (26:2, 1992)
Sources about Fort Union, New Mexico
"Archaeology and Everyday Life at Fort Union," New Mexico Historical
Review, 40:2 (1965)
Arrott’s Brief History of Fort Union
"The Best Sutler's Store in America: James
E. Barrow and the Formation of Trader's Row at
Fort Union, New
Mexico, 1867-1891," New Mexico Historical Review, 70:3
(1995)
Fort Union: A Photo History (Sperry,
1991)
Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the
Southwest (Oliva, 1993)
Fort Union and the Santa Fe Trail
(Utley, 1898)
Fort Union Memories (LaTourette,
1951)
Fort Union National Monument: An Administrative
History (Zhu, 1992)
"From Ruins to a National Monument: Fort
Union, New Mexico, 1891-1956,"
(Zhu, Liping),
New
Mexico Historical Review, 69:1 (January 1994)
A History of the Archaeological Investigations
at Fort Union National Monument
Of a Temporary Character: An Historic
Structure Report of ...Fort Union, New Mexico
"The Third Fort Union: Architecture, Adobe
and the Army (Pitcaithley, Dwight T.),
New Mexico Historical
Review, 57:2 (April 1982)
"Why We Reconstructed Fort Union,"
Western Historical Quarterly
23:3, (August
1992)
Other sources about the military and the West
"Army Agriculture in New Mexico, 1852-53,"
(Frazer,
Robert W.), New Mexico
Historical Review,
50:4
(October 1975)
The Army and the Navajo
(Thompson, 1976)
Army Exploration in the American West
(Goetzmann, 1959)
Army Letters from an Officer’s Wife, 1871-1888
(Roe, 1981)
Army Regulars on the Western Frontier
(Ball, 2001)
Army Wives on the American Frontier (Eales,
1996)
Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the
West (Albers, 1998)
"The Battle of Glorieta Pass," (Westphall,
David), New Mexico Historical
Review, (April
1969)
Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891
(Fowler, 1996, c. 1971)
"Black Soldiers at Fort Selden, New Mexico,
1866-1891," (Billington, Monroe),
New Mexico Historical
Review, 62:1 (January 1987)
The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the
Negro Cavalry in the West
(Leckie, 1967)
Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on
the Rio Grande (Taylor, 1995)
Cannoneer in Navajo Country (Rice,
1970)
Cannons: An Introduction to Civil War
Artillery (Thomas, 1985)
Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong
Custer and the Western Military Frontier
(Utley, 1988)
Chiefs, Agents and Soldiers: Conflict
on the Navajo Frontier, 1868-1882 (Moore,
1994)
Civil War in the American West (Josephy,
1991)
Civil War in the Western Territories (Colton,
1959)
Civil War in West Texas and New Mexico:
The Lost Letterbook of Brigadier General Henry
Hopkins Sibley (Sibley,
2001)
Clash of Cultures: Fort Bowie and the
Chiricahua Apaches (Utley, 1977)
Colorado Volunteers in the Civil War:
the New Mexico Campaign in 1862 (Whitford, 1991)
Confederate General of the West: Henry
Hopkins Sibley (Thompson, 1996)
"Confederate Hero at Val Verde," (Faulk,
Odie B.), New Mexico Historical
Review, 38:4
(October 1963)
Custer: The Man, the Myth, the Movies
(Langellier, 2000)
Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custeriana
(Graham, 1986, c. 1953)
The Custer Reader (Hutton,
1992)
A Difficult and Forlorn Country: The Military
Looks at the American Southwest,
1850-1890,"
(Wooster), Arizona and the West, 28:4 (Winter
1986)
Distant Trumpet (fiction
by Horgan on Apache wars)
A Dose of Frontier Soldiering (
Bode, 1994)
Federal Control of the Western Apaches,
1848-1886 (Ogle, 1940)
Five Years a Dragoon, '49 to '54 (Lowe,
1965)
"Filling the Breach: Military Aid to the
Civil Power in the Trans-Mississippi West, "
(Laurie),
Western Historical Quarterly, XXV:2 (Summer 1994)
"Fort Craig, New Mexico, and the Southwest
Indian Wars, 1854-1884," New
Mexico Historical Review,
73:2
(April 1998)
Fort Defiance and the Navajos (Frink,
1968)
Fort Fillmore: See
special issue of El Palacio, 74:2 (Summer 1967)
Fort Selden, New Mexico (Cohrs,
1987)
Fort Stanton, New Mexico: The Military
Years, 1855-1896 (Myers, 1993)
Fort Sumner, New Mexico (Wilson,
1974)
Fort Union (see above)
Forts of the West (Frazer,
1965)
Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay (Rickey,
1963)
Frontier Regulars: The United States Army
and the Indian, 1866-1891 (Utley, 1984)
Frontiersmen in Blue: the United States
Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 (Utley, 1981, c. 1967)
General George Crook, His Autobiography
(Crook, 1986)
General Crook and the Apache Wars (Lummis,
1985)
A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West
(McDermott, 1998)
The Horse Soldier, 1776-1943 (Steffen,
1977)
Indian Depredation Claims, 1796-1920 (Skogen,
1996)
Life and Manners in the Frontier Army
(Knight, 1978)
Military and United States Indian Policy,
1865-1903 (Wooster, 1995)
Military Campaigns in the Navajo Country:
Northwestern New Mexico, 1800-1846 (Wilson, 1967)
Military Conquest of the Southern Plains
(Leckie, 1963)
Nana’s Raid: Apache Warfare in Southern
New Mexico, 1881 (Lekson, 1987)
Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the
Frontier Army (Wooster, 1993)
New Mexico in 1850: A Military View (McCall;
Frazer, ed., 1968)
New Mexico Military. Special issue
of New Mexico Historical Review,
66:1 (January
1991)
New Mexico Military Installations (Myers,
1966)
New Mexico’s Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900
(Billington, 1991)
Noble Brutes: Camels on the American Frontier
(Boyd, 1995)
Personal Recollections and Observations
of General Nelson A. Miles (Miles, 1992 [1896])
Peddlers and Post Traders: The Army Sutler
on the Frontier (Delo, 1992)
The Permanent Indian Frontier [Fort
Scott, Kansas] (Shoemaker, 1986)
Phil Sheridan and his Army (Hutton,
1985)
"Purveyors of Flour to the Army: Department
of New Mexico, 1849-1861,"
(Frazer,
Robert W.), New Mexico Historical Review, 47:3 (July 1972)
The Search for the Well-dressed Soldier,
1865-1890 (Chappell,
1972)
Sheridan's Troopers on the Border (Keim,
1973)
Soldiers (Time-Life
editors, 1973))
Soldiers and Settlers: Military Supply
in the Southwest, 1861-1885 (Miller, 1989)
Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military
Frontier (Hutton/Utley, 1987)
Texas and New Mexico on the Eve of the
Civil War: The Mansfield & Johnston
Inspections, 1859-1861
(Thompson, 2001)
The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880
(McChristian, 1995)
"A Window on Themselves: Perceptions of Indians
by Military Officers and
Their Wives," (Smith,
Sherry L.), New Mexico Historical Review, 64:4
(October 1989)
Wolves for the Blue Soldiers: Indian Scouts
and Auxiliaries with the
United States Army,
1860-90 (Dunlay, 1982)
OTHER
New Mexico Military Institute (Gibbs,
1991)