Fort Bowie

Drove to the historic Fort Bowie ruins a couple of hours northeast of Bisbee for a short hike to see the remains of an early U.S. imperialist campaign. Fort Bowie was established in 1862, to keep the mail and stages moving between east and west, and to subjugate the indigenous inhabitants, the Chiricahua Apaches led first by Cochise, and then Geronimo. How appropriate in this age of U.S. aggression around the world, and racist oppression of people of color domestically, that we see how much treasure and effort we've spent, on just one of many campaigns, to erase a people and a culture. Makes you proud to be an "American." 

Ran into bovines of low morals on Apache Pass Road.

Remains of the Chiricahua Apache Indian Agency (AKA, genocide bureau).

Helen's Dome, named after an apparently well-endowed young woman particularly popular with the troops at Fort Bowie. 

Ruins of the powder magazine.

After the fort was decommissioned in 1894, the local townspeople scavenged building materials from all the post's many buildings.

Adobe walls of the cavalry barracks.

An obvious place to build: the only flat space in the triangular valley.

View from the Overlook Ridge Trail on the return hike.

A view of the Dos Cabeza Range, adjacent to the Chiricahuas. Oh, and that's my friend Ira's cabeza.