Ft. Davis

This is a scenic pic in the Davis Mountains I took (and played around with in Photoshop a little) when down there researching my unpublished (so far) western novel about the Buffalo Soldiers. The Butterfield Stage route went through here on its way to El Paso, TX--once known as Franklin.

When we were down there studying the history of the area, it was the middle of a drought and everything was tinder dry. Must have been over fourteen years ago. This area, and the region north of here, our own Llano Estacado, were two very wild regions with Ft. Davis assigned to protect the area from hostiles. The Buffalo Soldiers were a troop of African American, Union soldiers who fought bravely to protect this region and its peoples.

I hope to release that novel in the near future.