Fort Stanton: Fort Stanton & Ruidoso, New Mexico

Theme: old west, a guy, owns a patented mining claim close to Ruidoso, New Mexico Territory, which contains the "American Gold Mine". Post Civil war. He is influenced to travel to El Paso to retrieve a group of orphans from a Baptist Orphanage there that has lost funding and must close, relocate the kids, or turn them out upon the streets. He is Christian, was a Deacon once - a bad experience! He is requested to bring the kids from El Paso to Fort Stanton, New Mexico Territory, which is managed by the U S Army / Cavalry. That fails, and he has to take them to Ft Sumner (used by Army / Cavalry from 1863 - 1868). Fort Stanton (1855 to 1896), originally accommodated Navajos and Apache's (but all were relocated to Ft Sumner). Sumner is surrounded by rolling hills, water, and game on the prairie around. He is a veteran of civil war, trapper, hunter, tracker, miner, and raiser of sheep, goats, chickens, horses, mules, and cattle.

So when does this happen? Late 1880's