We used Kean's visit as a good excuse to go explore Fort Union, east of here. They have a nice little museum with the layered history of the three forts on site -- in the second half of the 1800's there was a lot going on, between protecting those traveling the Santa Fe Trail, resisting Confederate forces coming from Texas during the Civil War, and skirmishing with various native tribes. 125 years after abandonment, the site is being reclaimed by the edge of the Great Plains.
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