Very close to the town of Marfa, TX is the town of Fort Davis.
Fort Davis stands unique among frontier forts in that it became the Regimental Headquarters for all four Buffalo Soldier regiments that served during the last decades of the 19th-century. Troopers of the Ninth Cavalry were the first Buffalo Soldiers to garrison Fort Davis. Arriving in the summer of 1867, they reoccupied the fort that had been abandoned by Union forces at the outbreak of the Civil War. In addition to helping construct a new post, they had the responsibility of protecting travelers on the San Antonio-El Paso Road, a segment of the southern Overland Route to California.
This information was found at http://www.blackpast.org/ . Check it out for more information on the Buffalo Soldiers.
It was a nice mellow Fourth of July at Fort Davis. The small town was crowded with people. We wanted to get away from the crowd and so we hiked on a trail on the bluff above the Fort.
West Texas has a reputation as be dry and desolate. But, as you can see from the photo above, it can be a paradise.
Fortunately, we missed being hit by this storm when we where up on the bluff. It started just as we got back to the Fort. When the rain started the drops where big and fat. There was lots of thunder and lightening.
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