Camp on Pawnee Fork

The Camp on Pawnee Fork, later renamed Camp Alert, was founded by the U.S. Army to protect a mail station being built at a site called Pawnee Fork. This station, on the Santa Fe Trail was threatened by Kiowa and Comanche Indians who wanted the site left vacant. The first company of cavalry troops arrived Sept. 1, 1859.

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  Camp on Pawnee Fork ⓘ
  later renamed Camp Alert and later moved to become Fort Larned, a United States Army frontier post

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1859 Camp on Pawnee Fork

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