Camp Cody, New Mexico
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source date: 2025
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Wikipedia article on Camp Cody, a US Army training camp near Deming, NM, active 1916-1919. Covers the camp's construction during summer 1917 with 120 mess houses and 1,200 bathhouses; 30,000 troops of the 34th "Sandstorm" Infantry Division from Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas; the camp originally named Camp Brooks during the Mexican Border War, then Camp Deming, then renamed Camp Cody for Buffalo Bill Cody; the 97th Division assembling there in October 1918; the influenza epidemic of 1918 killing 426 soldiers (194 in November alone); the camp closing in 1919; conversion to a tuberculosis sanitarium for veterans operated by the Sisters of the Holy Cross; the facility burning down in 1939; the Codyville entertainment district outside the camp; details of soldier life, horse remount station, and the Fredrick Emil Resche controversy.