The Children of Fort Stanton, second edition, is a collection of memories of thirty-seven children who grew up at the Public Health Service tuberculosis hospital for merchant seamen in isolated Lincoln County, New Mexico. The time covered in these recollections is from the 1920s to 1953, when the hospital was turned over to the State of New Mexico.

Each of the individual stories tells of their personal experiences and quite often gives insight into the many facets of Fort Stanton life. Quite often a different way of telling some experience or event while growing up at the hospital gives us special insights and new perspectives on life there. There may be some secrets revealed by playmates which will amuse the others and readers in general as the stories are read.

Two of the children deserve credit for collecting these stories and providing the majority of the photos. Danna Kusianovich Henderson and Claire Boyd Fluharty have been the driving force for this book. The reader must remember many of the children are looking back as far as seventy years ago so there will be inconsistencies in many of the stories. 

This self-published book by James J. McBride, 2009, has 212 pages and over 348 photos.