FORT PAH-UTE 1867-68 'Aiimayafeigilteen enlisted men of Company ,"D 9th US Infantry once served duty 18me nanow crumbling walls of Fort Pah-Ute. Although never established as azrgfial fart, PanUte Creek, as it was commonly called, did house a small number afar-my troops from November 17, 1867 to May 3, 1868. _ During the 1860s,, a chain of five military redoubts, including Fort Pah-Ute, were gstablished approximately a days ride apart, spanning the Mohave Desert from Camp Cady near Barstow, California, to Fort Mohave on the Colorado River. Thus once important road which historically linked Los Angeles, California with Srescott, Arizona soon became obsolete upon completion of the Southern Pacific ailroad s Needles to Mohave line in 1883. With the continued growth of the'ra-ilroad $13.36 abandonment of the Mohave Road as a major transportation route, Fort a te slowly deteriorated to its present state of ruin. ' The low rock walls running from the fort down the rocky slope in the foreground renresented a portion of a lar e corral f . . _ COHStructed after the fort was agandoned.o unknown origin, which was probably Archaeological resou rces are protected by the 1906' Antiquities Act and the 1979 Archaeological Resources ProteCTiO ACt'