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Fort Sumner

United States historic place

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Fort Sumner was a military fort in New Mexico Territory charged with the internment of Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863 to 1868 at nearby Bosque Redondo.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Fort Sumner” as united States historic place. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fort, Sumner and United.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1863, 1868—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fort, Sumner and United providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1863 and 1868.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fort Sumner” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.