Qualla: Fort Grant, Arizona https://qualla.com/fort-grant-arizona en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/c/c/fort-grant-arizona-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fort Grant, Arizona https://qualla.com/fort-grant-arizona Fort Grant, Arizona: Introduction https://qualla.com/fort-grant-arizona/ Photo credit War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1818-9/18/1947, Public domain. In 1877, a teenage ranch hand named Henry McCarty killed a blacksmith at a saloon near Fort Grant and was locked in the fort's stockade. He escaped to New Mexico Territory before he could be tried. The world would come to know him as Billy the Kid. Two decades later, a young man named Edgar Rice Burroughs arrived at the same fort after failing the entrance exam for West Point. He was discharged within a year, diagnosed with a heart condition. He went on to create Tarzan. Fort Grant has a way of launching people into legend, even as the fort itself transforms from frontier outpost to reformatory to state prison.

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]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/c/c/fort-grant-arizona-wp/9tcc-fort-grant-arizona-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fort Grant, Arizona: Four Names, One Location https://qualla.com/fort-grant-arizona/ Photo credit War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1818-9/18/1947, Public domain. Fort Grant was born in August 1860 as Fort Breckinridge, an Old West outpost at the junction of Aravaipa Creek and the San Pedro River. When Union troops evacuated at the start of the Civil War, the fort was destroyed and abandoned. It returned as Fort Stanford from 1862 to 1865 ...

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]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/c/c/fort-grant-arizona-wp/9tcc-fort-grant-arizona-four-names-one-location.mp3 0:06 2 full Fort Grant, Arizona: Outlaws and Authors https://qualla.com/fort-grant-arizona/ Photo credit War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1818-9/18/1947, Public domain. The fort's most famous residents never intended to stay long. Billy the Kid worked as a ranch hand and sheep tender in the area in 1876, when he was still just Henry McCarty, a teenager drifting through the Arizona Territory. His first killing, at a saloon called the Bonita Store...

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]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/c/c/fort-grant-arizona-wp/9tcc-fort-grant-arizona-outlaws-and-authors.mp3 0:06 3 full Fort Grant, Arizona: Wars Foreign and Domestic https://qualla.com/fort-grant-arizona/ Photo credit War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1818-9/18/1947, Public domain. Throughout the 1880s, Fort Grant served as a key installation in the Apache Wars, protecting settlers from warriors who refused to accept confinement on reservations. The fort's strategic position on Mount Graham's slopes gave it commanding views of the approaches from Apache cou...

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]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/c/c/fort-grant-arizona-wp/9tcc-fort-grant-arizona-wars-foreign-and-domestic.mp3 0:06 4 full Fort Grant, Arizona: From Barracks to Cellblocks https://qualla.com/fort-grant-arizona/ Photo credit War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1818-9/18/1947, Public domain. The Army abandoned Fort Grant in 1905, transferring all troops to Fort Huachuca and leaving only a caretaker behind. When Arizona achieved statehood in 1912, the state government saw potential in the empty buildings. The fort became the State Industrial School for Wayward Boys an...

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]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/c/c/fort-grant-arizona-wp/9tcc-fort-grant-arizona-from-barracks-to-cellblocks.mp3 0:06 5 full Fort Grant, Arizona: What Remains https://qualla.com/fort-grant-arizona/ Photo credit War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1818-9/18/1947, Public domain. The Fort Grant Historical Museum once occupied the lobby of the administration building, displaying artifacts from the fort's military history through its years as a reformatory and prison. That museum is now closed, the administration building shuttered with no known plans to re...

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