Time for Peace

Fort Lewis, Colorado, 1878-1891

By: Duane A. Smith

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Hardcover | 15 June 2006

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A Time for Peace, historian Duane Smith's chronicle of southwest Colorado's Fort Lewis, belies the Western myth of soldiers riding out from isolated posts to rescue wagon trains and protect pioneer towns. Long on daily routine and blissfully short on action, Fort Lewis lost nary a soldier in battle. Nevertheless, it was influential in the settlement of the West.

Fort Lewis and its contemporaries provided an economic windfall, a sense of security, and a cultural hub for settlers. The presence of Fort Lewis in the four corners region of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah attracted farmers, businesspeople, and ranchers to settle the area. The fort's social season, band, and baseball team helped make this rugged outpost an agreeable destination.

The men who served at Fort Lewis, who made up a diverse cross-section of nineteenth-century America, served for little pay and poor food. With Smith's history, their contribution to the settlement of the West is recognized at last. Readers interested in Western and military history and in Colorado will enjoy this long-untold story.

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"Smith has skillfully selected photographs rich in social history, and it is as social history that this work contributes to our understanding of the frontier army."
--Geoffrey R. Hunt, New Mexico Historical Review
"Smith helps even the most casual reader come to understand the day to day work on a typical frontier fort, and by extension, the daily life of the soldier of the Frontier Army....This well-written book also includes maps to help place the fort in a regional context and photographs that help breathe life back into the story of the old fort."
--William W. Swaltney, Western Historical Quarterly

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Military History

Preface	p. ix
Map of Colorado & Fort Lewis	p. xii
Prologue: Punished Woman's Fork and Pagosa Springs	p. 1
Pagosa Springs	p. 9
The Ute War	p. 23
A Remote New Post	p. 37
Photographic Essay: His Hour Upon the Stage	p. 59
The Troopers	p. 71
General Commotion All Over the Country	p. 93
The Army Loved to Dance	p. 119
Photographic Essay: God of Battles	p. 135
Uncle Sam's Bonanza	p. 155
The Last to Leave	p. 171
Epilogue: Strike the Tent	p. 183
Notes	p. 189
Bibliographic Essay	p. 205
Index	p. 207
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