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Photographer: Courtesy Old Guardhouse Museum
Taken: Circa 1896
Caption: Historic view of the Seminole Scout Camp on Fort Clark
Additional Description: A Seminole settlement was established on Fort Clark in 1872. The Scouts and their families lived along the course of Las Moras creek some two miles south of the main post garrison. They referred to their simple jackel thatched roofed homes as “the camp.” Of his first visit there in May 1883, Lieutenant Francis H. French, of the 19th Infantry, who was then commanding the scouts wrote, “Rode all around camp with Sgt. Kibbets and saw where the animals graze and where the men live. Some of them keep their places in nice condition all the time while others live like pigs.” These men and children are unidentified, possibly scouts on leave from Fort Duncan.
Submitted: May 13, 2012, by William F Haenn of Fort Clark (Brackettville), Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p203726
File Size: 0.316 Megabytes

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