The FortWingate Army Depot, located 7 miles east of Gallup, sits among the red rocks along U.S. Interstate 40, next to the reservations of the Navajo Nation and the Zuni Pueblo Tribe in New Mexico.
In the 1994 Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed FortWingate to White Sands Missile Range missile shots, the Navajo expressed concern that flying missiles might pierce the "dome of the spirit" which is the air space represented by visualizing a dome placed over the area enclosed by the four sacred Navajo mountains.
Nearby FortWingate held a contingent of federal soldiers that kept the peace on the frontier.
The picture of a stockaded fort somewhere on the frontier is one of the most recognizable images associated with the history of the west.
Fort Buford, North Dakota, was established in mid-June, 1866, near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers in the same general region as the American Fur Company post of Fort Union.
Fort Elizabeth Meagher, Montana, established near the present-day town of Bozeman in the spring of 1867, was named for the wife of Thomas F. Meagher, secretary and former acting governor of the territory.
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