In 1958 and 1959, the syndicated western television series "Mackenzie's Raiders", starring Richard Carlson as Colonel Ranald Mackenzie, with Morris Ankrum, Louis Jean Heydt, and Jack Ging, was set at the former Fort Clark near Brackettville though it was filmed at the former Fort Apache at the former Corriganville Movie Ranch near Simi Valley, California. The series is based on exploits of the United States Cavalry as it protected the Rio Grande border in the period after the American Civil War.