The State of Colorado is indebted to a great number of people in the San Luis Valley, in particular, for their aid in bringing Fort Garland into being as a State monument, but the list would be too long to enter here. The State Historical Society is especially appreciative of the aid given and interest show by members of the Fort Garland Historical Fair Association, the Territorial Daughters and the Regional Committee on Fort Garland. Mrs. Rosamund Slack assumed curatorship of Fort Garland in 1950, after the death of her husband, James Slack, who had been the curator. PRINTED BY PEERLESS PRINTING CO. [Illustration: Bugler] The exhibits for the Fort Garland buildings were prepared by members of the State Historical Society’s staff, which included: Roy Hunt, H. R. Antle, Paul Rossi, Juan Menchaca, Mervin King, the late Curator Edgar C. McMechen and James T. Forrest, who became Deputy Curator in charge of the Colorado State Museums in 1953. Footnotes [1]Chief Ouray’s name was often spelled Uray or Ulay. [2]Willians, Ellen, _History of the Second Colorados_, 1885. [3]Tobin, Thomas T., “The Capture of the Espinosas,” _Colorado Magazine_, Vol. IX, pp. 59-66. [4]Chief Ouray of the Tabequache tribe of the Utes. [5]This is Chief Kaneache of the Muache tribe of the Utes. Transcriber’s Notes --Generated an original cover image, released for free and unrestricted use with this Distributed-Proofreaders-Canada eBook. --Silently corrected a few palpable typos. --Retained copyright notice from the printed edition (which is now public-domain in the country of publication.) --In the text versions only, delimited italicized text in _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Old Fort Garland, by James T. Forrest and Rosamund Slack