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anyone else in the Southwest was the army’s betrayal of a truce with Cochise and the events precipitated by this action.
166. Oscar Waldo Williams, “An Old Timer’s Reminiscences of Grant County, New Mexico,” Password, Vol. 10 (Summer, 1965), p. 51, footnote 23. According to Williams, Wordsworth was a lawyer and rancher at Tucson. He was a member of the Provisional Government convention in 1860, and was appointed General of the militia, an empty title.
167. Anderson, “Mining,” pp. 81-86. In other sources, such as Mills, Forty Years, p. 178, this name is spelled Diffendorfer. Frank Diffenderfer was a relative newcomer to Franklin, having arrived in 1857, and it is not clear that any of the Diffenderfers held the sutler’s post at Fort Bliss until after the Civil War.
168. Gilbert J. Pedersen, “A Yankee in Arizona: The Misfortunes of William S. Grant, 1860-1861,” The Journal of Arizona History, Vol. 16 (Summer,
1975), pp. 127-128. By fall, Grant had bought out Taliafero and constructed a large mill near Tucson capable of producing 10 bushels of flour per hour.
169. Anderson, “Mining,” pp. 87-89. At the time, the mountain range north of the copper mines was referred to as the Pino Alto Mountains. The time at which the spelling was changed to the present-day Pinos Altos Range is unknown.
170. Ibid.; Mesilla Times, October 25, 1860, p. 1; Tevis, Arizona, pp. 191, 201-202. According to Tevis, Burch was the fugitive murderer of a Colonel Davenport at Rock Island, Illinois, in the early 1840s. If so, he would have been between 14 and 18 years old at the time of the incident. Burchville, present- day Pinos Altos, was named after him.
171. New Mexico Census, 1860. An examination of the census record, and the extreme ruggedness of the area covered makes it probable that there were many persons missed by the census.
172. Mesilla Miner, June 9, 1860, p. 1; New Mexico Census, 1860. An extensive article filling most of the front page of the first issue of the Mesilla newspaper covered the “election” of provisional state officials and a copy of the provisional state constitution. Despite the fact that a meeting at Mesilla had adopted such an action, there was no legal basis for it. The census lists Owings as 40, a Physician, and Governor.
173. Mesilla Miner, June 9, 1860, p. 1; Tevis, Arizona, pp. 188-191. The reason for the discrepan-
cy between Smith’s (14) and Tevis’s (12) number of prospectors could be attributed to faulty memory, or perhaps not all of the prospectors cared for the isolated wilderness and roving Apaches. Tevis claimed to have built the first house, a crude struc- ture along Bear Creek, large enough to hold 10 to 12
men.
174. John Myers Myers, I, Jack Swilling (New
York: Hasting House Publishers, 1961), pp. 203-309. Swilling described The Great Western as “good-na- tured as a cow elephant in a peanut patch,” when she was not riled and that she had “the bounce of an earthquake.”
175. Mills, My Story, pp. 41, 54-55; Thrapp, Vic- torio, p. 67. It is ironic that Mills was, at least for a short period, one of the miners at Pinos Altos, be- cause these men were directly responsible for incur- ring the extreme hatred of Mangas Coloradas, who was later involved in the death of Mills’ younger brother Emmett. Mills would become a noted
General in the Civil War and hold the patents on the machine-woven webbed gear that became standard military equipment worldwide.
176. Mills, My Story, p. 59. It was not determined when the town of Burchville became known as Pino Alto, present-day Pinos Altos. There also seems to be some confusion among historians as to the original name of Burchville or Birchville. This may be due to there being a town named Birchville on the Overland Mail route, between El Paso and San An- tonio, about 25 miles east of San Elizario, and near a town presently named Alamo Alto. Another potential explanation is that Burch’s name was misspelled Birch in the New Mexico Census, 1860.
177. Ibid., p. 55; Mills, Foity Years, pp. 2-3. The two elder Mills soon sent for a younger brother, Emmett, and the three built a ranch 18 miles above El Paso, near present-day Canutillo, and named it “Los Tres Hermanos.” Emmett occupied the ranch, and it was used as a Santa Fe mail station. It is highly probable, therefore, that Emmett was working for George Giddings. In fact, he may never have worked, as some historians claim, for the Butterfield line.
178. Mesilla Times, November 1, 1860, p. 2; Thrapp, Victorio, p. 68. Between these two names, the fort was briefly called Fort Floyd, most likely after the Secretary of War.
179. Mesilla Times, October 25, 1860, p. 3. 180. Mesilla Times, October 18, 1860, p. 3.
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