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The first Fort Wingate was established near San Rafael in 1862 as the base of Colonel Kit Carson's campaigns against the Navajos. In 1868 the garrison was transferred to the second Fort Wingate near Gallup. That same year, the Navajos returned here after their imprisonment at Fort Sumner.
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Fort Wingate, New Mexico · United States
