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1. Harwood P. Hinton, Jr., “John Simpson Chisum, 1877-1884" New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 31 (July, 1956), p. 190 (hereafter cited as Hin- ton, ”J. S. Chisum"). William Aloysius Keleher, The
Fabulous Frontier, Twelve New Mexico Items (Albu- querque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982), p. 60. Chisum’snameshouldnotbeconfusedwiththe Chisholm Trail, the route of the long drive from Fort Worth and Waco, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas, named for another famous cattleman.
2. Hinton, “J. S. Chisum,” p. 61. Grant County Herald, September1,1877,p.3:1.
3. Ibid., July 14, 1877, p. 3:1. Several authors misinterpreted John Swisshelm’s name to have been a misspelling of John Chisum.
4. Mesilla Valley Independent, July 21, 1877, p. 1:1. 5. Ibid., March 16, p. 3:3, April 13, 1878, p. 3:3.
6. Eve Ball, Ma’am Jones of the Pecos (Tucson:
The University of Arizona Press, 1969), pp. 92-97. J ohn Jones and Billy The Kid were allegedly friends, though they ended up on opposite sides in the Lin- coln County War. Jones was murdered by Bob Ol- linger whom Billy killed during his famous jail-break at Lincoln.
7. Grant County Herald, April 4, 1875, p. 3:1., p. 3:2.
8. Ibid., September 29, 1877, p. 3:3, copying the Mesilla Valley Independent, no date.
9. Grant County Herald, March 6, 1875, pp. 1:2, 2:5-6, 3:7. The first issue of this Silver City newspaper carried advertisements by S. J. Lyons at Fort Cummings, A. S. Lyons at Hot Springs, J. D. Slocum for his ranch, and the Kerns and Mitchell stage line for a new seven-day trip to San Diego from Silver City for $100. A. S. Lyons was a relative of S. J.LyonsandreplacedhimatCooke’sSpringafter the latter’s murder.
10. Ibid., February 20, 1876, p. 4:3; Hinton, “J. S. Chisum,” p. 61.
11. Rio Grande Historical Collections, Manuscript Number 80 (Las Cruces: New Mexico State University), p. 27. According to Darlis A. Miller, The California Column in New Mexico, (Al- buquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1980), p. 121 (hereafter cited as Miller, California Column), the Corn Exchange Hotel was in Joseph
F. Bennett’s old house and was owned by John and Augustina Davis. Sam was not having much success at this time; the post office had dropped his facility at Fort Cummings on December 28, 1875.
12. GrantCountyHerald,May10,1877,p.3:3.
13. Ibid., June 30, p. 3:4, July 7, 1877, p. 3:2.
14. Ibid., October 6, 1877, p. 3:2.
15. Phillip J. Rasch, “The Bonny Brothers,” Fron-
tier Times, Vol. 39 (Dec.- Jan., 1964), p. 61, copying the Mesilla Valley Independent of October 13, 1877. 16. Grant County Herald, May 25, 1878, p. 2:1. According to the Mesilla News, July 27, 1878, p. 4:2-3 and the Grant County Herald, October 19, 1878, p. 2. J. B. Price, from Missouri, was the president of the
company, and C. E. Goldsmith was the Silver City agent.
17. GrantCountyHerald,June22,p.3:3,June29, 1878, p. 3:3, and from information in November 14, 1878, p. 3:2.
18. Grant County Herald, January 13, 1877, p. 1:4. From the May 25, 1878, issue, p. 3:1, the telegraph office was for a time temporarily discontinued.
19. OdieB.Faulk,DestinyRoad(NewYork:Ox- ford University Press, 1973), pp. 170-171 (hereafter cited as Faulk, Destiny)’, Grant County Herald, March 31, 1877, p. 2:2.
20. Ibid., September 9, 1876, p. 3:1.
21. Dan L. Thrapp, Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1974), p. 183 (hereafter cited as Thrapp, Victorio). 22. Grant County Herald, September 9, 1876, p. 3:1. 23. Ibid., October 21, 1876, p. 3:3.
24. Ibid., November 5, 1876, p. 2:1.
25. Ibid., November 11, 1876, p. 1:7.
26. Ibid., February 3, 1877, p. 2:2.
27. WilliamH.Leckie,TheBuffaloSoldiers,a
Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967) pp. 178-179 (hereafter cited as Leckie, Buffalo Soldiers). Ac- cording to the Grant County Herald, March 10, 1877, p. 2:2, golden bullets were picked up later at the site of Lieutenant Wright’s engagement with the Apaches.
28. Grant County Herald, March 10, 1877, p. 3:3. 29. Ibid.
30. Harold Miller, “Nana’s Raid of 1881,”
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