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Young University Press, 1980), p. 25.
18. Los Angeles Southern News, March 8, 1861, p.
2:3, copying the Mesilla Times, December 27, 1860; Smith, Oury, p. 91. Mina Oury noted that the skeletons of the six Indians remained hanging from the trees for two years.
19. FrankA.RootandWilliamElseyConnelley, The Overland Stage to California (Columbus, Ohio: Long’s College Book Company, 1950), pp. 41-43; Dorman H. Winfrey, “The Butterfield Overland Mail Trail,” Along the Early Trails of the Southwest (Austin: The Pemberton Press, 1969), p. 40.
20. Los Angeles Southern News, p. 2:4, copying the Mesilla Times, March 9, 1861; Los Angeles Southern News, p. 2:1, copying the Mesilla Times, April 3,
1861.
21. Wayne R. Austerman, Sharps Rifles and
SpanishMules: TheSanAntonio-ElPasoMail, 1851-1881 (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985), pp. 161-162 (hereafter cited as Auster- man, Sharps Rifles.
22. Ibid., pp. 162-163; San Antonio Express, May 18, 1902, p. 13:1, 4.
23. Mesilla Times, April 13, 1861, p. 3:2.
24. Ibid., p. 3.
25. New Mexico Census, 1860. If he had not
moved since the census had been taken, that would make the other three men at the Cooke’s Spring station C. M. Coleman, R. A. Abriel, and J. G. Pitman. What a tailor was doing living at Cooke’s Spring, in the middle of nowhere, is beyond rational comprehension.
26. Mesilla Times, April 13, 1861, p. 3:2, 3; Oscar WaldoWilliams,“AnOldTimer’sReminiscencesof Grant County, New Mexico,” Password, Vol. 10 (Summer, 1965), pp. 46, 51 (hereafter cited as Wil- liams, “Old Timer’s”). Hagar, like Kelley, was from Palmyra, Missouri.
27. Mesilla Times, May 11, 1861, p. 3; John Philip Wilson, “A Mesilla Times Returns to New Mexico,” El Palacio, Vol. 78 (Number 3, 1972), p. 2. Frank Higgins was the Mesilla newspaper editor until at least July 29.
28. Lordsburg Liberal, April 22, p. 2:1-8; Auster- man, Sharps Rifles, p. 168-169; Galveston Civilian and Gazette, June 4, 1861, 1, n.p., copying the, Mesilla Times of May 11. James Henry Tevis, Arizona in the ’50’s (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1954), p. 229-230 (hereafter cited as Tevis,
Arizona), claimed that a number of Pinos Altos
miners had joined McNeice at Ojo la Vaca intending to go through to California and were wiped out in the same attack.
29. Emmie Giddings Wheatley Mahon and Chester V. Kielman, “George H. Giddings and the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 61 (Oct., 1957), p. 236 (hereafter cited as Mahon and Kielman, “Gid- dings”).
30. AnArrastremillwasaprimitivemethodofore reduction by means of having a mule drag a large rock over the crude ore in a circular pit.
31. Tevis, Arizona, pp. 219-228. Tulipi, called tiz- win by the Americans, was an Apache beverage fermented from sprouted corn. One old fron- tiersman claimed that a drink of the brew would make a jackrabbit jump up and slap a wildcat in the face.
32. Galveston Civilian and Gazette, June 4, 1861, n.p., copying the Mesilla Times of May 11.
33. Mesilla Times, May 18, p. 1, March 30, 1861, p. 1:1. Apparently Caldwell’s knee wound, at the hands of Harrington, had not been incapacitating.
34. Ibid., May 18, n.p. An escort of six heavily armed fighting men for the mail coach was a stand- ard operating procedure for Giddings.
35. Ibid., 2:1, May 25, 1861, p. 2:1. Henry Skillman would be in charge of the western division (Mesilla- Los Angeles) of the line, and his brother William D. was to be the agent at Mesilla.
36. Austerman, Sharps Rifles, p. 169-170; Mahon and Kielman, “Giddings,” p. 238. The arithmetic is one off here in that the mail party was seven men and James’spartywasfive,makingatotalof12. Perhaps the Apaches caught one man at the station.
37. The El Paso Times, July 10, 1957, n.p., indi- cated that Giddings had previously lost a brother, Giles, at the Battle of San Jacinto, as one of the relatively few American casualties. Austerman, SharpsRifles,pp.169-170;SanAntonioExpress May 4, 1902, p. 22:3. An archaeological field school, conducted at Fort Cummings during July 1989, revealed that the Cooke’s Spring station had not been burned so it may have been the spared facility.
38. Mesilla Times, May 25, 1861, p. 2:1.
39. Los Angeles Southern News, July 12, 1861, p. 3:1, copying the Mesilla Times, May 25, 1861.
40. Mesilla Times, June 30, 1861, p. 2. William was also the deputy postmaster at Mesilla.
41. Ibid., June 1, p. 2:1, June 16, 1861, p. 1, 2:1.
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