Fort Bascom Helen Boyle Given the centrality of sport

Given the centrality of sport in American life

Ovidian tales and Homer's Odyssey into a poetics that makes Portrait of Colossus cathartic

Disabled and still reeling from his harrowing journey in Vietnam as a unit medic

While offering insight into the sad history that has led to the present disunity

Posthumous gifts

Fort Bascom Helen Boyle Given the centrality of sportMotorists traveling along State Highway 104 north of Tucumcari, New Mexico, may notice a sign indicating the location of Fort Bascom. The post itself is long gone, its adobe walls washed away. In 1863, the United States, fearing a second Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory from Texas, built Fort Bascom. Until 1874, the troops stationed at this site on the Eroded Plains along the Canadian River defended Hispanic and Anglo American settlements