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1. Lynn Irwin Perrigo, TheAmerican Southwest, Its PeoplesandCultures(NewYork:Holt,Rinehartand Winston, 1971), p. 156 (hereafter cited as Perrigo, American Southwest).
2. ArchieP.McDonaldandCarlL.Davis,“The War with Mexico,” The American West, edited by William P. Rowley (St. Louis: The Forum Press, 1980), p. 4 (hereafter cited as McDonald and Davis, “The War”).
3. Perrigo,AmericanSouthwest,p.157.
4. McDonaldandDavis,“TheWar,”p.4.
5. Ibid., p. 5.
6. Perrigo, American Southwest, p. 158.
7. McDonald and Davis, “The War,” p. 5; Russell
Blaine Nye, George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944), pp. 151-152. In developing these plans Polk had considerable assis- tance; notable among those helping was George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy and noted historian. Bancroft, acting in William Learned Marcy’s ab- sence, was also filling in as Secretary of War.
8. Perrigo,AmericanSouthwest,p.158.
9. Harry G. Shaffer, “The U. S. Conquers the West,” The American West, edited by William D. Rowley (St. Louis: The Forum Press, 1980), p. 10 (hereafter cited as Shaffer, “U. S. Conquers”).
10. Perrigo, American Southwest, p. 159.
11. Otis A. Singletary, The Mexican War (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960), p. 14.
12. Shaffer, “U. S. Conquers”, p. 12.
13. William Turrentine Jackson, Wagon Roads West:AStudyofFederalRoadSurveysandConstnic- tion in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1846-1869 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965), p. 17 (hereafter cited as Jackson, Wagon Roads). This is in seeming conflict with Bernice Cosulich, Tucson (Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes, 1953), p. 83 (hereafter cited as Cosulich, Tucson) in which it was stated that Polk and Marcy had indicated to the Mormon envoy Jesse C. Little that as many as 2,000 Mormons might be enlisted. Perhaps, as some politicians do, they were giving different information to various people, or
they may have indeed changed their minds later. 14. Otis E. Young, The West of Philip St. George Cooke, 1809-1895 (Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1955), p. 186 (hereafter cited as Young,
Cooke).
15. AveramBurtonBender,“MilitaryTransporta-
tion in the Southwest, 1848- 1860,” New Mexico His- torical Review, Vol. 32 (Apr., 1957), p. 123.
16. Odie B. Faulk, Destiny Road (New York: Ox- ford University Press, 1973), p. 19; Sandra L. Myres (ed.), Ho for California (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1980), pp. 1-2.
17. ChrisEmmett,FortUnionandtheWinningof the Southwest (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965), pp. 26-29. Some of the other officers who served under Kearny included Alexander W. Doniphan, Sterling Price, Willard P. Hall, Edwin V. Sumner, and Philip St. George Cooke. It was only through Kearny’s intervention that Cooke and Sum- ner were recalled from their assignments to proceed west.
18. Young, Cooke, pp. 185-186.
19. David B. Gracy, II and Helen J. H. Rugeley, “From the Mississippi to the Pacific: An English- man in the Mormon Battalion,” Arizona and the West, Vol. 7 (Summer, 1965), p. 127 (hereafter cited as Gracy and Rugeley, “An Englishman”).
20. Young, Cooke, p. 186. According to Carl V. Larson, A Data Base of the Mormon Battalion: An Identification ofthe Original Members ofthe Mormon Battalion (Providence, Utah: Keith Watkins and Sons Printing, Inc., 1987), p. 1 (hereafter cited as Larson, Data Base), the Mormons were scattered in temporary camps from present-day Omaha, Nebraska, eastward half-way across Iowa.
21. CharlesS.Peterson,JohnF.Yurtinus,David E. Atkinson, and A. Kent Powell, Mormon Battalion Trail Guide (Salt Lake: Utah State Historical Society, 1972), p. 4 (hereafter cited as Peterson, et al., Trail Guide). A brevet rank was an honorary promotion that entitled the officer to all the privileges of that position except pay.
22. Gracy and Rugeley, “An Englishman,” p. 128. This is a moot point because by the time the Bat- talion was enlisted the United States had concluded its agreement with the British and the dangers as- sociated with the Northwest had evaporated.
23. Cosulich, Tucson, p. 83.
24. DouglasDeVenyMartin,YumaCrossing(Al- buquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1954),
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