it turns out that in his memoirs , general douglas macarthur young hishen he was herer, arthur mcarthur was and this building is where the .acarthur's lived they came in december 1883. macarthur had been born in january of 1880. he says in his memoirs that he learned to shoot and to ride while he was here, but it seems rather unlikely. he would've been three years old when he came and five or six years old when he left. seems rather unlikely that he militarye hefted weapon or that he would've been .llowed to ride a horse there's been an attempt to point out that macarthur was here. he was probably the most famous man that was here is very young lad for a brief time. so the other big story that's associated with this with the 19th-century forts in new mexico in general, the story of the buffalo soldiers. , there hadivil war been black soldiers who fought for the north and the civil war. after the civil war a decision units whoo form black anded under white officers many of them are sent to the west. the first group that came here came in 1866. 125th infantry. they were called buffalo the