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1. Odie B. Faulk, Too Far North ... Too Far South (Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1967), pp. 5, 11 (hereafter cited as Faulk, Too Far North).
2. Ibid., pp. 5-11. Unfortunately, and through no fault of his, it proved to be not so easy to get Gray to the scene of the action. Gray fell seriously ill and was unable to fulfill his duties for several months.
3. Ibid., pp. 14-18.
4. Ibid., pp. 25-32. Weller’s eventual successor, John Russell Bartlett, attributed Fremont’s resigna- tion to his election as a Senator from California.
5. Robert Marshall Utley, The International Boundary; United States and Mexico - A Histoiy of Frontier Dispute and Cooperation, 1848-1963 (Santa Fe: United States Department of the Interior Na- tional Park Service, 1964), p. 8. Utley described Bartlett as a scholarly New England book dealer and publisher specializing in travel books and that travel would also be Bartlett’s specialty in the Southwest rather than surveying.
6. Faulk,TooFarNorth,pp.43-47.
7. Archie P. McDonald and Carl L. Davis, “The War with Mexico,” The American West, edited by William D. Rowley (St. Louis: The Forum Press, 1980), p. 12.
8. Faulk,TooFarNorth,p.50.
9. John Russell Bartlett, Personal
plorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico,
California, Sonora, and Chihuahua Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commis- sion, During the Years 1850, ’51, ’52, and ’53 (Chicago: The Rio Grande Press, Inc., 1965) Vol. 1, p. 146 (hereafter cited as Bartlett, Personal Narra- tive).
10. The style of metal work is still practiced in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, formerly El Paso del Norte. 11. Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 1, pp. 166-
168.
12. Ibid., pp. 192-193; Ralph Paul Bieber (ed.),
Exploring Southwestern Trails, 1846-1854, Vol. 7 (Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1938), p. 309 (hereafter cited as Bieber, Southwestern Trails); Leon Claire Metz, Fort Bliss: An Illustrated History (El Paso: Mangan Books, 1981), p. 11-12 (hereafter cited as Metz, Fort Bliss).
13. Hart would figure conspicuously in El Paso
politics in later years.
14. Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 1, p. 151.
15. Faulk,TooFarNorth,p.58. HereFaulkgets
confused in either his measurements or his mathe- matics and states “forty-four miles” and “well over a hundred.”
16. Faulk,TooFarNorth,pp.58-62.
17. It is perhaps too easy to fault Bartlett at this point, even though he mentions that he had con- sidered initiating the river surveys but decided not to. He had not received any communication regard- ing the reason for the long delay of Gray and Major James Duncan Graham (who had replaced Captain John McClellen as Chief Astronomer) or when to expect them.
18. To the author’s knowledge, this fact and argu- ment against the Commissioners’ decision have not been noted previously. The Gila heads on the up- permost reaches of the west side of the continental divide, which in this area is at approximately 108 degrees west longitude.
19. P.M.Baldwin,“AShortHistoryoftheMesilla Valley,” New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 13 (July, 1938), pp. 316-320 (hereafter cited as Baldwin, “Short History”). The first permanent settlement in the Mesilla Valley was established in 1843 as the Dona Ana Bend Colony, organized by Don Jose Maria Costales, who had obtained the grant in 1839. The site was initially settled by 261 men, women, and children, but many left in 1844 because of Indian attacks.
20. AsrecordedinRobertWalterFrazer,Fortsof the West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965), p. 98, Craig was brutally murdered on June 6, 1852, while trying to persuade two Fort Yuma army
deserters to surrender.
21. Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 1, p. 154.
22. JohnCareyCremony,LifeAmongtheApaches
(Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes, 1951), p. 23 (hereafter cited as Cremony, Apaches)
23. Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 1, pp. 169, 178, 197.
24. Ibid., pp. 205-206.
25. Ibid., pp. 214-219.
26. Todaythesemilk-coloredvolcanicfragments,
also noted in November 1846 by Cooke, are still in
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