Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico - WWI History
author: Kromeke, Michael
source date: 2026
availability: web

Comprehensive Camp Cody website with extensive photo collections, historical documents, and detailed history. Covers the 34th "Sandstorm" Division; the camp's $2,000,000 construction cost; 3,000 laborers building the facility; 10,000 loaves of bread baked daily; the 100-acre horse remount station; the fire of 1939 that destroyed the Holy Cross Sanatorium; photo collections from dozens of soldiers; newspaper clippings; rosters; officer lists; the official camp newspaper "Trench and Camp" (Oct 1917 - Dec 1918); the camp's theme song "We're Coming From Cody"; the Liberty Theatre built in April 1918; the Codyville entertainment district housing dance halls.