In June 1868, the Bosque Redondo Reservation at Fort Sumner was closed by the U.S. Government, and in 1869, it sold the Army buildings to Lucien B. Maxwell for about $5,000. This sale, which included the buildings and portions of the surrounding land, did not technically give Maxwell ownership of the section of land the buildings were on since it was still federally owned as a reservation. Maxwell’s family used the officers’ living quarters as a 20-room house, and Pete Maxwell continued to lease out the old Fort’s buildings as homes and businesses after his father passed away. The buildings were eventually sold to The Landry Sharpe Construction Company in 1886, and most likely, they were the ones who added the second floor and upper porch to the old Maxwell home shortly after purchase. While some believe that the Maxwell home was a two-story home in 1881 when The Kid visited, an old photo of the building showing a cannon parked out front suggests that the photo was taken when the Army still occupied the land. This is false and to confirm this we can turn to John W. Poe’s testimony. The Cannon, parked out front of the house, was actually a 6 pound howitzer that Maxwell acquired while living in Cimarron and was probably sold along with the buildings