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56 (hereafter cited as Sherman and Sherman, Ghost Towns).
142. One source, Jean LaPorta, Luna County however, claimed that Harry Whitehill and other young men around Cooke’s Peak used to go to Cooks for dances in the early 1890s. Another, Jenkinson, “Bones,” p. 14, indicated the presence of a bawdy house run by a Miny Lucy. Although the presence of an establishment of this nature was highly prob- able, this remains unsubstantiated.
143. Victor Johnston, Personal Interview, March 29, 1988. His fields of specialty at New Mexico State University are psychopharmacology and neurop- sychology.
144. McKenna, Tales, p. 242.
145. Todsen, Letter to the Author, p. 1.
146. Deming Headlight, March or April, 1888, n.p.
The work may have been from a much earlier period. Winners of the West, November 30, 1935, p. 3:3, 4, indicated that soldiers stationed at Fort Cummings in the early 1880s found leg irons and a Spanish lance head, and parts of skeletons near an old mine work on the Mountain.
147. Deming Headlight, March or April, 1888, n.p.
148. Albuquerque Tribune, November 28, 1973, p. F-10:5. The Census, 1885, p. 73, listed Sam[uel] Carpenter and nine others at Fort Cummings but failed to include Stanley.
149. John Gregory Bourke, On the Border with Crook (Chicago: The Rio Grande Press, 1962), p. 435.
150. EveBall,NoraHenn,andLyndaSanchez, Indeli: An Apache Odyssey (Salt Lake: Brigham Young University Press, 1980), p. 286.
151. BrunoJ.Rolak,“GeneralMiles’Mirrors- The Heliograph in the Geronimo Campaign of 1886,” The Journal ofArizona History, Vol. 16 (Sum- mer, 1975), pp. 148-149 (hereafter cited as Rolak, “Mirrors”); Nelson Appleton Miles, Personal Recol- lections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles EmbracingaBriefViewoftheCivilWarorFromNew England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Explora- tion, Development and Progress of Our Great Western Empire (Chicago: The Werner Company, 1896), p. 481 (hereafter cited as Miles, Recollections).
152. Edward Everett Dravo, Heliograph Stations
in New Mexico January 26, 1887 (Archives, Fort Huachuca Museum, Arizona). This site should not be confused with the Dripping Springs, east of Las Cruces, in the Organ Mountains.
153. Wilson, Post Returns, pp. 89-90.
154. Miles, Recollections, p. 481.
155. Rolak, “Mirrors,” pp. 151-156.
156. Wilson, Post Returns, pp. 88-90.
157. Winners of the West, November 30, 1935, p. 1.
Green, contrary to many memoirs, remembered dates and names sufficiently to establish that he was correct when he stipulated that his detachment relieved the one commanded by Sixth Cavalry Cap- tain Adna Romanza Chaffee that left in October.
158. From Todsen, Letter to the Author, it can be surmised that she was the postmistress, Mrs. O. C. Carpenter, who served from June 25, 1890, until July 17, 1891. Samuel had served as postmaster from his appointment until July 1887, when the post office was closed.
159.Ibid. ; WinnersoftheWest,November30,1935,
p. 1.
160. Richard Bolles Paddock to AAG, Head-
quarters Department of Arizona, January 12, 1890, Archives, Fort Huachuca Museum, Arizona, p. 5; Henry Walter Hovey and Richard Bolles Paddock, ReportsofConcertedReconnaissancesforShortLine Connecting Bayard and Stanton Heliograph Divisions, N. M., January 5, 1890, (Archives: Fort Huachuaca Museum, Arizona), p. 3.
161. Todsen, Letter to the Author.
162.CharlesFranklinParker,“SignalsintheSun,” Arizona Highways, Vol. 43 (June, 1967), pp. 36, 39; Rebecca Robbins, “Some Reflections on the Heliograph,”PeriodicalJournaloftheCouncilon America’s Military Past, Vol. 12 (Aug., 1983), pp.
27-28.
163. Redfield Proctor to President Benjamin Har-
rison, October 6, 1891, Las Cruces BLM, Fort Cum- mings File.
164. Ibid.\ Benjamin Harrison, Executive Order, October 7, 1891, Las Cruces BLM, Fort Cummings File.
165. See, for example, Caldwell, Last Retreat, pp. 83-86.
166. Velva L. Melton, Letter to Author, August 29, 1988.
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