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that two stations were abandoned.
139. Lang, St. Louis, p. 132. Hoffman, Western
Travel, p. 88 and many other sources attribute this comment to Ormsby, the young reporter, during his
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140. Lang, St. Louis, p. 128.
141. RootandConnelley,OverlandStage,p.5. The greatest government subsidy went to the steam- ship lines, and the total cost to the government for operation over the various routes was nearly $2.2 million per year, whereas the total revenue generated amounted to less than one-sixth of that.
142. Anderson, 55
“Mining, p. 99. Smith was
probably recollecting the large scale Indian attack that took place in September the following year.
143. Lang, Memphis, p. 54.
144. Ibid., pp. 58-60.
145. Ibid., pp. 64-65. Barrows reported paying
$400 in gold for the two tickets, so the waiting list of passengers must have inflated the price again some- time between June 14 and December 17.
146. Ibid.,pp.66-67. Thismayhavebeenthestart of the serious troubles with the Apaches, but there was no indication that any stations had been destroyed or that this was anything but an isolated incident related to continued and increasingly violent confrontations between the Apaches and Sutton.
147. War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Ar- mies, 70 Vols. in 128 parts (Washington: United States War Department, 1880-1901), Series 1, Vol. 50, Part 1, p. 123.
148. Beck and Hasse, Historical Atlas p. 25. ,
149. Frazer, Forts and Supplies, p. 136. The supply alongthesouthernroutewasanexception,because, unlikemostoftheothermilitaryinstallationsfarther norththatwereservedbythefirmofMajors,Rus- sell, and Waddell, the posts in New Mexico Territory were supplied by Quartermaster’s trains or by Hart.
150.RobertMarshallUtley,FrontiersmeninBlue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1967), pp. 155-157 (hereafter cited as Utley, Frontiersmen)', Stanley Crocchiola, The Fort Thom New Mexico
Story (Pep, Texas: Private Publication, 1965), pp. 9-11.
151. Frazer, Forts and Supplies, pp. 137-138.
152. Nona Barrick and Mary Taylor, The Mesilla
Guard, 1851-61 (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1976), p. 27.
153. Ibid., pp. 31-33.
154. Dan L. Thrapp, Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974), pp. 56-57, (hereafter cited as Thrapp, Vic-
ride west on the first stage.
Examination of Ormsby s material failed to reveal this statement.
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That Steck was a physician lends some
torio). credibilitytohissuspicions.
155. Stephen Melvil Barrett (ed.), Geronimo: His
Own Story (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.,
1970), pp. 85-88.
156. Thrapp, Victorio, pp. 60-61.
157. Bender, “Mescalero Apache,” p. 63.
158. Moderate-sized, semienclosed, four-wheel
wagons were frequently referred to as ambulances. 159. SamuelWoodworthCozzens,TheMarvellous [sic] Country; or Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico, the Apaches’ Home Comprising a Descrip- tion of This Wonderful Country, Its Immense Mineral Wealth, Its Magnificent Mountain Scenery, the Ruins ofAncient Towns and Cities Found Therein, with a CompleteHistoryoftheApacheTribe, andaDescrip- tionoftheAuthor’sGuide,Cochise,theGreatApache War Chief (Boston: Shepard and Gill, 1873), pp.
239-240.
160. Ibid., pp. 207-219, 240-251; Marc Simmons,
The Little Lion of the Southwest, a Life of Manuel Antonio Chaves (Chicago: The Swallow Press, Inc., 1973), pp. 140-145. Cozzens had expressed concern to White about the Apaches because, when he had returned to Mesilla from Tucson, Captain Ewell accompanied him and Cozzens’ six wagons as far as Dragoon Springs with 32 men. On the way they had a sharp encounter with Apaches in which two of
Ewell’s men were killed.
161. Thrapp, Victorio, pp. 62-63.
162. Tevis,Arizona,pp.110-114.
163. Bender,“MescaleroApache,”p.77.
164. AveramBurtonBender,“GovernmentEx-
plorations in the Territory of New Mexico, 1846- 1859,” New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 9 (Jan., 1934),p.31. Oneofthetwomajorincidentsthat would soon set the Apaches at war was the beating of this Apache chief at the hands of the Pinos Altos gold miners. The date for this incident is not avail- able, and the approximate timing must be deter- mined from circumstantial evidence.
165. Spicer, Cycles, p. 246; Thrapp, Victorio, p. 65. The second major incident that would succeed in triggering a total war between the Apaches and