Comments on: On the Road to Fort Selden, New Mexico 10/5/1916 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/on-the-road-to-fort-sheldon-new-mexico-1051916/ Letters Home from a Yankee Doughboy 1916-1919 Tue, 07 May 2013 23:19:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: leftywritey http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/on-the-road-to-fort-sheldon-new-mexico-1051916/#comment-75 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:19:17 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=1108#comment-75 I always get a jolt when reading Sam writing to “me”. I love that.

: )

Sam is correct about the dirt. In this part of the world, the dust permeates *everything*. Being outside with our horses, I get as dirty as I did as a child. (I love that, too.)

But boy would I love that river to swim in. I think he kinda liked it, after the heat.

Em

]]> By: worldwar1letters http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/on-the-road-to-fort-sheldon-new-mexico-1051916/#comment-74 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:16:15 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=1108#comment-74 Thank you so much for the correction! I’m sure you must be right. Sam has written it both ways in his letters but the destination you point out is right on target.

]]> By: Gene Hiigel http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/on-the-road-to-fort-sheldon-new-mexico-1051916/#comment-73 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:33:25 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=1108#comment-73 This is just a nit, but I think Sgt. Avery is referring to Fort Selden, not Fort Sheldon. Fort Selden was on the Rio Grande about 13 miles north of Las Cruces. It would have been abandoned by the Army as a fort long before 1916, but presumably the Army still owned the land. http://www.nmmonuments.org/inst.php?inst=10

I love your website and it is one of the first places that I hit each morning, hoping for a new letter. Thank you for all of your effort.

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