Fort Courage Isn’t Here

Bob Bluthardt is used to the question, “Where is the wall?” After all, visitors have seen those pine palisade walls in B-Westerns, and plenty of A-Westerns, and TV shows from Cheyenne (numerous forts featured, such as Fort Grant) to F Troop (Fort Courage). “I ask them, ‘Why do you want to build a wall?’” says Bluthardt, director at Fort Concho, in action from 1867 to 1889 and now a national historic landmark in San Angelo, Texas. And the question, “‘What’s it made of?’ The