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...children were being vetted and screened at Fort Concho, an historic frontier fort in nearby San Angelo. Texas officials say they were removed from the polygamist enclave because they were in danger of sexual, physical and psychological abuse. But on Monday, the kids were relocated from Fort Concho to the San Angelo Coliseum because their mothers claimed they were falling sick. The Associated Press said about 20 children had come down with mild chicken...
...post hospital burned down long ago. So did Officers' Quarters No. 5. But the 21 remaining limestone buildings at Fort Concho-the enlisted men's barracks, the two-story headquarters that dominates the parade ground, the officers' row-all glint beige-red in the West Texas sunset as they did 100 years...
...historical curio: the "Buffalo Soldiers," black cavalry troopers, ex-slaves mostly, who were recruited after the Civil War and sent west to help the whites get established in the inhospitable vastness. After 20 years, the work was done. In 1889 the troopers mounted up and rode away from Fort Concho for the last time, while the regimental band played The Girl I Left Behind Me. Four years later, Frederick Jackson Turner proclaimed his elegiac thesis that the frontier, the decisive molding influence of the American character, was gone...
Today, in Officers' Quarters No. 7, John Vaughan, 46, director of Fort Concho, plots an act of historical conjuration. "As it was, so it shall be," says a card that decorates the blueprints on his office wall. Vaughan, a 6-ft. 6-in. Tennessean with a voice that sounds like an intellectual version of the old Gunsmoke deputy, Chester, speaks with a sort of loving surprise about the fort. A skilled stonemason and carpenter, as well as historian, Vaughan came to San Angelo from Alabama last year. He wants to build a reproduction of the Fort Concho hospital...
...past, though often in a merely Disney way. They want the past to speak to them; but, especially in the '60s and '70s, it occurred to many to wonder whether the past was telling them the truth. John Wayne repeatedly re-enacted one version of the Fort Concho mythology, but the claims of other perspectives have been rising. Wayne Daniel, 38, Fort Concho's librarian and archivist, speaks wistfully about including disparate points of view in the restored fort-perhaps inviting Indians down from Oklahoma to help prepare exhibits. But most of the Indians were either extinguished...