Page 100 - Cooke's Peak - Pasaron Por Aqui

portion of the combined journal for the passage through Cooke’s Canyon is missing.
159. Eccleston, Overland pp. 164-172; Greer, Hays,p.243. Theissueofthefortificationswill become important in a later analysis of a Cooke’s
Canyon tragedy, the Freeman Thomas massacre. 160. Eccleston, Overland, p. 176; Austerman, “Desperado,” pp. 56-60; Greer, Hays, pp. 246-249. Hays also encountered Carrasco of the Mexican Boundary Commission, a former adversary, at the
crossing of the Colorado River.
161. RalphPaulBieber(ed.),ExploringSouth-
western Trails, 1846-1854, Vol. 5 (Glendale: The Ar- thur H. Clark Company, 1937), pp. 317-318. The author, identified only as A. M. W., was Alden M. Woodruff, the 19-year-old son of the editor of the Arkansas Gazette. He also named three other com- panies (Davis, Clarksville, and Lincoln) traveling within a day’s journey of his. There may be a ques- tion on the identity of Thibault, because Robert Brownlee, An American Odyssey, Edited by Patricia A. Etter (Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1986), pp. 55, 62, obviously knew Thebolt [Thibault] but referred to the “adventurer” only as “one of our men.”
162. Griggs, Mesilla Valley, p. 58. The Mormon train encamped at Cooke’s Spring was identified as a different one than observed on June 9.
163. Nancy Miller Hamilton, Ben Dowell: El Paso’s First Mayor (El Paso: Texas Western Press,
1976), pp. 6-16.
164. Joseph G. Rosa, The Gunfighter, Man or Myth
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974), p. 66.
165. P&rrigo, American Southwest, p. 269.
166. Bell,“CattleTrail”,Vol.35(Jan.,1932),p. 209.
167. Griggs, Mesilla Valley, p. 58.
168. Bieber, Southwestern Trails p. 53. ,
169. Chaput,Aubry,pp.116-120. Accordingto John O. Baxter, Las Cameradas: Sheep Trade in New Mexico, 1700-1860 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987), pp. 119-122, (hereafter cited as Baxter, Cameradas). Aubry was not the first to drive sheep herds to California. Earlier drives, however, used routes other than through Cooke’s Canyon. In the Spring of 1852 Richens Lucy “Uncle
Dick” Wooten partnered with Jesse B. Turley to assemble 9,000 woolies for a drive over the later infamous Donner Pass. They were soon followed by anothergroup,ledbyBenjaminFranklinCoonsby way of Janos, Mexico, with 14,000 animals. Other early entrepreneurs included Antonio Jose Luna, his brother Ambrosio, and future New Mexico Governor Miguel Antonio Otero.
170. Chaput, Aubry, p. 118; Bieber, Southwestern Trails, p. 54; Baxter, Cameradas, p. 123. Chaput claimed the sheep numbered 3,500.
171.Bieber,SouthwesternTrails,p.54.
172. Ibid., p. 377; Chaput, Aubry, p. 120. Don Ambrosio Armijo, who followed Aubry by a few months, did not fare so well; he lost about 1100 sheep in the sand hills west of the Colorado crossing.
173. Bieber, Southwestern Trails, p. 54. Chaput, Aubry, p. 123 claims 18 men and a departure date of July 11, 1853. The disagreement over numbers and dates may indicate that the two authors were refer- ring to different points of departure and that two
men left the party between the first and second dates.
174. Chaput, Aubry, pp. 140-142; Foreman, Whip- ple, pp. 106-107, 114. Whipple’s journal reflects a slightly different interpretation in that Aubry was “cautioning us to avoid his trail as being unsuitable
for our operations.”
175. Chaput, Aubry, pp. 140-148; Baxter,
Cameradas, p. 126.
176. Bieber, Southwestern Trails, pp. 59-61.
177. Bell, “Cattle Trail”, Vol. 35 (Jan., 1932), pp.
209-210.
178. Ibid., pp. 225, 231; Walter S. Sanderson (ed.),
“A Cattle Drive from Texas to California: The Diary ofM.H.Erskine,1854,”TheSouthwesternHistorical Quarterly, Vol. 67 (Jan., 1964), p. 403 (hereafter cited as Sanderson, “A Cattle Drive”). By this time, through repeated stampedes, Erskine’s trail herd hadbeenreducedto926head.
179. Bell, “Cattle Trail”, Vol. 35 (Jan., 1932), p. 237.
180. Sanderson, “A Cattle Drive,” p. 404.
181. Ibid., p. 405.
182. Bell, “Cattle Trail”, Vol. 35 (Apr., 1932), pp.
290-293.
183. Ibid., pp. 294-295.
,
Endnotes
86