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p. 109 (hereafter cited as Martin, Yuma Crossing). 25. Peterson, et al., Trail Guide, p. 4.
26. Ralph Paul Bieber (ed.), Exploring South-
western Trails, 1846-1854, Vol. 7 (Glendale: The Ar- thur H. Clark Company, 1938), p. 131 (hereafter citedasBieber,SouthwesternTrails). Larson,Data Base, p. 14, indicated that although John Allen was not initially a member of the LDS Church, he was baptized into the church so that he could join the volunteers. He was drummed out of the Battalion April 18, 1847, before his term of enlistment expired, and was killed later that year during a quarrel.
27. Gracy and Rugeley, “An Englishman,” p. 129. Their exact reason for leaving England, and what they proposed to do in America, was lost with the extremitiesofthedamagedjournal. Larson,Data Bank, p. 21, spells the second Englishman’s name Beddome.
28. Gracy and Rugeley, “An Englishman,” p. 133. 29. Ibid., p. 134.
30. Itwasfortunatethediarysurvivedbecauseit
was one of the few that was kept as a daily contem- poraryjournalratherthanbeingcompiledatalater date. In addition, being unfamiliar with many of the surroundings, the articulate teenager described manythingsothersmighthavetakenforgranted.
Obviously there had been no rigorous drilling of the volunteers during the period of August 4 to 13.
36. Ibid., p. 138.
37. Peterson, et al., Trail Guide, p. 10.
38. Gracy and Rugeley, “An Englishman,” pp.
138-142.
39. Young, Cooke, p. 187; Kate B. Carter (comp.),
“The Diary of Reddick N. Allred,” Treasures of
Pioneer History (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah
Pioneers, 1956), pp. 304-305.
40. Larson, Data Base, p. 3.
41. Bauer, Mexican War, p. 137.
42. Jackson, Wagon Roads, p. 18.
43. Young, Cooke, p. 183. Cooke would be
promoted to the rank of Major, Second Dragoons, intheregulararmyonFebruary16,1847.
44. GeorgeRuhlen,“Kearny’sRoutefromtheRio Grande to the Gila River,” New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 32 (July, 1957), pp. 215-217. Carson had left Los Angeles on September 5 with 15 men. KearnypersuadedCarsontoguidehimtoCalifornia and let Thomas Fitzpatrick carry the messages east.
45. ForbesParkhill,TheBlazedTrailofAntoine Leroux (Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1965), p. 87 (hereafter cited as Parkhill, Antoine Leroux).
Endnotes
46. JohnK.Herr,andEdwardS.Wallace,The StoryoftheU.S.Cavalry(Boston:Little,Brownand North American History (New York: Rinehart & Company, 1953), p. 116. The First Dragoons originated in 1833, the Second Dragoons in 1836, and the Mounted Riflemen in 1846. The first cavalry regiments(FirstandSecondCavalry)werenotor-
31. PaulHorgan,GreatRiver,theRioGrandein
Company, Inc., 1954), Vol. 2, pp. 721-728; Stella Madeline Drumm (ed.), Down the Santa Fe Trail and IntoMexico: TheDiaryofSusanShelbyMagoffin, 1846-1847 (Santa Fe: William Gannon, 1975), p. xxix. Daniel Tyler, “Governor Armijo’s Moment of Truth,”JournaloftheWest,Vol.11(Apr.,1972),pp. 312-313, asserted that Magoffin paid Armijo 500 ounces of gold.
32. RalphEmersonTwitchell,TireHistoryofthe Military Occupation of the Territory of New Mexico from 1846 to 1851 by the Government of the United States (Chicago: The Rio Grande Press, Inc., 1963), p. 385. Weightman had volunteered to carry the news to Kearny so he could be in on the anticipated fight. The Province of New Mexico included what
today is New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.
33. Karl Jack Bauer, The Mexican War 1846-1848 (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1974), p. 133 (hereafter cited as Bauer, Mexican War).
34. Peterson, et al., Trail Guide, pp. 4-5.
35. Gracy and Rugeley, “An Englishman,” p. 136.
ganized until 1855.
47. Young, Cooke, pp. 21, 37, 64.
48. Ibid.,pp.99,123,195. Snively,awesternchar-
acter of dubious ethics and questionable reputation, will play a significant role in the development of gold mining at Pinos Altos, near the Santa Rita copper mine, which became a hotbed of Confederate sympathy.
49. Paul Horgan, Great River Vol. 2, p. 500. Peter- son, et al., Trail Guide, p. 23. Cooke’s geographical knowledge of the region came primarily from two commercial maps, Tanner’s American Atlas and Mitchell’s map of Texas, Oregon, and California. These had only sketchy information at best and were next to useless for his purpose.
50. Bauer, Mexican War, p. 138; Daniel Tyler, A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, 1846-1847 (Chicago: The Rio Grande Press, 1964), pp. 140, 164 (hereafter cited as Tyler,
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