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Camp Bowie was named for James 

 Bowie, by courtesy a "colonel," who was 

 born in Georgia and died in Texas. He 

 took part in the Texas Revolution and 

 fell at the Alamo. The bowie knife 

 gets its name from this intrepid frontiers- 

 man. In an encounter with some Mexi- 

 cans he broke his sword to within 20 

 inches of the hilt, but found that upon 

 sharpening the point he was able to do 

 such execution in hand-to-hand combat 

 that he equipped all of his followers with 

 a similar weapon, since known as the 

 bowie knife. 



CAMP DONIPHAN 



Situated near the town of Lawton, 

 Kans., in the county of Comanche, on the 

 Fort Sill Military Reservation, Camp 

 Doniphan is the place of training for the 

 National Guard forces of Kansas and 

 Missouri. Here also is located a field ar- 

 tillery training school for the Regular 

 Army. In 1901 Lawton, as a part of 

 the Comanche Indian Reservation, was 

 opened for settlement. By the day set for 

 the opening 25,000 people were encamped 

 near the vacant town site, forming a tent 

 frontage eight miles long. The lands re- 

 leased at that time were larger than the 

 State of Connecticut and within three 

 months had a population of 50,000. 



Camp Doniphan was named for Col. 

 Alexander William Doniphan, of the 

 First Missouri Cavalry. He was born in 

 Kentucky in 1808 and died in Missouri in 

 1887. During the Mexican War he led 

 an expedition across the Rio Grande, and 

 was marching in the direction of Chihua- 

 hua when he was attacked unexpectedly 

 by 4,000 Mexicans. Although greatly 

 outnumbered, he routed the attacking 

 forces and captured Chihuahua. Before 

 the outbreak of the Civil War, Colonel 

 Doniphan was one of the commissioners 

 to a peace convention which met at Wash- 

 ington and sought unsuccessfully to find 

 a basis of compromise upon which both 

 sides could unite and thus avert the then 

 impending military struggle. 



CAMP CODY 



At Camp Cody, New Mexico, troops 

 from North and South Dakota, Iowa, 

 Nebraska, and Minnesota are being 



trained. The camp is situated partly in- 

 side the limits of the little plains city of 

 Deming, less than 40 miles from the Mex- 

 ican border. The site offers an expanse 

 of flat country between a branch of the 

 Southern Pacific Railway and the Santa 

 Fe. A plentiful supply of pure water is 

 raised from wells by electric pumps. 



Deming has 255 cloudless days a year 

 and sunshine on 308 days ; it averages 

 more sunshine than any other camp site. 

 The elevation here is about 4,300 feet. 

 Fifty-nine degrees is the annual mean 

 temperature, with no° as the highest rec- 

 ord of the mercury and 9 above zero as 

 the lowest. The city is a health resort 

 and the trade center of a mining and 

 cattle-raising district. The award of the 

 camp site necessitated the moving of rail- 

 road stock yards for sanitary reasons. 



This camp was named in honor of Wil- 

 liam F. Cody, last of the great American 

 scouts, whose fame justly ranks with that 

 of Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Kit 

 Carson. 



CAMP KEARNY 



Camp Kearny, 15 miles north of San 

 Diego, Cal., where the National Guards- 

 men of California, Nevada, Utah, Colo- 

 rado, New Mexico, and Arizona are sta- 

 tioned, is in a country which has some of 

 the aspects of southern France — the gray 

 olive orchards, the mulberry trees of the 

 silk-growers, sparkling blue sea, and 

 golden sunshine. 



Nature has lavished beauty, fertility, 

 and an almost perfect climate upon this 

 region. The coldest month has an aver- 

 age temperature of 54 ° and the warmest 

 month averages about 70 °. 



Between San Diego and the camp site 

 is the old Mission of San Diego, the first 

 settlement of white men in California, 

 dating from 1769. Pacific Beach and 

 Coronado Beach offer the pleasures of 

 the seashore, combined with semi-trop- 

 ical gardens of brilliant color and beauty 

 and modern hotels and comforts. 



The harbor of San Diego is one of the 

 finest in the world. Acres of parks and 

 gardens add to the natural beauty of its 

 situation. Commercially it profits by sev- 

 eral railroads and steamship lines. Its 

 present population of about 51,000 is al- 

 most triple that of 1900. 



