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Password Vol. 19 (Summer, 1974), p. 53 (hereafter cited as Miller, “Nana’s Raid”); Robert Marshall Utley, Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 (New York: The Macmil- lan Company, 1973), p, 359 (hereafter cited as Utley, Frontier Regulars).
31. Grant County Herald, September 29, 1877, p. 3:3, copying the Mesilla Valley Independent, (no date).
32. Miller, California Column p. 156. ,
33. Bertha Pauline Dutton, Indians of the American Southwest (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975), p. 122.
34. Marion C. Grinstead, Life and Death of a
FrontierFort: FortCraigNewMexico,1854-1885 (Socorro, New Mexico: Socorro County Historical Society, Inc., 1973), p. 30; Timothy Cohrs, Fort Sel- den, New Mexico (Santa Fe: State Monuments Division, Museum of New Mexico, 1974), p. 16.
35. Grant County Herald, January 11, 1879, p. 3:3. 36. Miller, “Nana’s Raid,” p. 53.
37. Grant County Herald February 3, 1877, p. 2:2,
November 29, 1879, p. 3:2, June 19, 1880, p. 1:5.
38. Thrapp, Victorio, pp. 218, 301.
39. Joseph Allen Stout, lx ., Apache Lightning (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1974), pp. 89-90 (hereafter cited as Stout, Lightning)-, Thrapp, Vic-
torio, p. 219, 236-237 claimed the Apaches took 68 horses and mules; Robert Marshall Utley and Wil- comb E. Washburn, The Indian Wars (New York: Bonanza Books, 1982), p. 312.
40. Dan L. Thrapp, The Conquest of Apacheria (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975), pp. 183-184 (hereafter cited as Thrapp, Conquest).
41. Keith Humphries, “Trail of the Pioneers,” New Mexico, Vol. 17 (Apr., 1939), pp. 34-35, claimed the wagon train was owned by a Mexican named Ochoa
and that 14 wagons were destroyed and the men all buried in a common grave.
42. Faulk, Destiny, p. 356; Miller, California Column, p. 157. Katherine D. Stoes, “The History of the Corralitos: From Bloody Tragedy to Progres- sive Industry,” The New Mexico Stockman, Vol. 20 (Mar., 1955), p. 52, indicated that Rynerson was also in the first party of 17 from Mesilla and that W. T. Jones’ body and another were returned to Mesilla forburial.
43. Thrapp, Victorio, pp. 247, 253-255.
44. Grant County Herald, November 29, 1879, p. 3:2. Stout,Lightning,p.88,indicatedthatMajor
Morrow stationed a company of Cavalry at Fort Cummings in May or June with instructions to scout the countryside. No support was found for this assertion, nevertheless, it would have been a logical tactic under the circumstances.
45. GrantCountyHerald,November22,December 20, 1879. At about the time of the second robbery, James A. Tevis must have been passing through on his way back to Arizona. For a while he settled in the old stage station at Apache Pass and later estab- lished Teviston, present-day Bowie.
46. Stout, Lightning, p. 119.
47. Thrapp, Victorio, pp. 277-282.
48. Eve Ball, In the Days of Victorio, Recollections
ofaWarmSpringsApache(Tucson:Universityof Arizona Press, 1970), pp. 108-110; Grant County Herald, June 5, 1880, p. 1:4.
49. Thomas K. Todsen, Letter to the Author (Oc- tober 1, 1984) (hereafter cited as Todsen, Letter to the Author); Census, 1880; Lyons was 67 and Mary was 60. Sam Lyons’ widow was Lebrada Lyons.
50. Grant County Herald, September 11, 1880. Stout, Lightning, p. 159, indicated that Madden was the son of Captain Daniel Madden, stationed at Fort Bowie.
51. JosephP.Peters,IndianBattlesandSkinnishes on the American Frontier, 1790-1898 (New York: Argonaut Press Ltd., 1966), p. 51; Dudley to AAAG, November 11, 1880, Letters Sent, Fort Cummings, Post Records, Record Group 393, National Archives (Microfilm copy at Rio Grande Historical Collec- tion, Roll 1), (hereafter cited as Letters Sent, Roll 1). Small wonder that Dudley later complained about the broken down condition of the Cavalry’s horses.
52. Grant County Herald, October 23, 1880, n.p.; Thrapp, Victorio, pp. 302-303. Terrazas was promoted for his feat. However, the event would cost his government dearly, immediately in scalp money and later in lives.
53. Dudleywasnearlydrivenfromthearmyforhis partisan activities during the Lincoln County War. For more information see Leckie, Buffalo Soldiers, pp. 183, 204.
54. ChrisEmmett,FortUnionandtheWinningof the Southwest (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965), p. 390.
55. DudleytoWilcox,October28,1880,Letters Sent, Roll 1.
56. Dudley to Buell, October 28, 1880, ibid. 57.DudleytoAAG,October29,1880,ibid.
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