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Goodness, how could I have forgotten; it was only 13 years ago. Good resource! Thanks.

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On a certain auction site there is an identical Meyers screw-back with one star, listed as 1st Cav., 2nd Brigade, and a similar Meyers one with a single star and a red horse head listed as 1st Brigade.

Does anyone know if this is accurate. If so, what would be the approximate date that the ID was ...

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Going thought my cavalry stuff in detail after some period of neglect, I keep finding things I don't know about. For example, in my pile of DUI pins, I have three for the 1st Cavalry Division. Having looked on-lie, I cannot find any reference to metallic DUI pins for the 1st Cav, before ...

Couvi, it was abandoned in 1890 or 1891 if memory serves. It was first built in 1854.

The Davis Mountains must have resembled Hell itself a million years or so ago. All that uplift is volcanic (you can see it in the peaks and rock faces) -- not with caldera, but with vast ranges of seeps. Just imagine an area of glowing, smoking lava bubbling flowing and piling up across an area that ...

Speaking of architecture, the earliest houses on Officer's Row at Ft. Davis were made of a stone that became impractical to get. So the later ones were made of brick or adobe, plastered over with something weatherproof in the same color as the stone, with faux joints scored into it to resemble stone ...

“Optimistic” is just a statement of a fact of life in those parts.

The three landscape views show actual country in which the units stationed at Ft. Davis pastured animals and foraged wood and rock. The high savannah character of the range here is very clear. For those unused to the immense scale of the American West, the rockface in Another View is about 100’ at ...

BOQ is a different view of one of the BOQ structures that used to stand at the far end of Officer’s Row.

The Butterfield Overland Stage route climbed the roughly 2,000 ft. from the desert floor, up the Wild Rose pass, and then passed through Ft. Davis. In this view we see the actual remains of that road passing between the ruins of barracks walls, stable blocks, and corrals. All of that had been made ...

Actually, Couvi, it was a relatively popular post for the surroundings and healthy situation. Semi-arid, but with good permanent water from LImpia Creek. Mosquitoes rare -- serious only in abnormally wet years. Good grass. At 5,000 ft plus is is both better watered and considerably cooler than the ...

You know, friends, I just noticed that I typed 'Ft. David" in the subject line. Can't figure out how to edit it now, but the place is actually called ,"Ft. Davis."

A view of part of Sleeping Panther Mt. from under the covered walk/porch on one of the EMQ buildings.

This shot from the front of Officer’s Row near Sleeping Panther mountain, across the parade ground to the Commissary.

The back of Col. Grierson’s home

BOQ, down across ruinous walls that once surrounded the back yards, gardens and detached kitchens of married officers.

Medical facility, which dates to the pre-war Dragoon period, but was considerably updated after the war.

Ft. Davis guarded against Apaches at the Wild Rose Pass through which ran the San Antonio-EL Paso Rd, which was used the Butterfield – Overland Stage route and the main southern overland road to California during the Gold Rush and after. It ran right through the fort. You can walk on it at the fort ...

Indeed so, Sandy.

I am not a carpenter. You would laugh at my skills. But I have handled and worked with a great deal of wood and especially oak (a friend and I took nearly 20 10 ft logs of old growth forest oak to the mill after they were brought down by wind, so I have a couple thousand bdft of ...

Yes, you certainly did have enough wit the service sabers, and did your usual thorough job. I am just uncertain enough about the warping that I, too must reserve judgment. The blade is in a M 1913 grip. However, the curve is awfully regular...

Not sure when I would be able to research it, what with ...