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 evidence.
27. Ibid., p. 220.
28. Ibid., p. 235. Probably at present-day City of
Rocks state park.
29. Ibid., pp. 226-227. White, though unidentified
by Bartlett, may have been William James Hamilton White.
30. Ibid., pp. 303-318; Cremony, Apaches, pp. 61- 66. Cremony claimed that it was he who had the sharpwordswithPoncewhilefulfillinghisdutiesas interpreter.
31. Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 1, pp. 319- 320.
32. Cremony, Apaches, p. 52.
33. Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 1, p. 321. Bartlett described the range of the Copper Mine (Mimbres) Apaches as the country on both sides of the Rio Grande and on the west up to about the San Francisco River. He believed that their numbers had decreased greatly in the last 5 years and that they probably could not muster 200 warriors.
34. Ibid., p. 330.
35. Ibid., pp. 331-339; Cremony, Apaches, pp. 67- 71.
36. Faulk, Too Far North, pp. 70-71.
37. Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 1, p. 341.
38. Faulk, Too Far North, pp. 73-77.
39. Odie B. Faulk, “The Controversial Boundary
Survey and the Gadsden Purchase, ''Arizona and the West, Vol. 4 (Autumn, 1962), p. 216 (hereafter cited as Faulk, “Boundary Survey”).
40. Paul Iselin Wellman, The Indian Wars of the West (Garden City: Doubleday & Doubleday, Inc., 1947), p. 286. In Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 1, p. 352., the author mentions a Mr. Hay, who was with a small party, as being engaged in working the gold mines nearby.
41. Faulk,TooFarNorth,pp.74-76.
42. Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 1. pp. 346- 353; Cremony, Apaches, pp. 81-84.
43. Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 1, pp. 350, 354.
44. Faulk,TooFarNorth,pp.81-94.
45. William Weber Johnson, The Forty-Niners (New York: Time-Life Books, 1974), p. 23; Cremony, Apaches, p. 129. Sutter had established New Helvetia at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers on part of the 50,000 acres Juan Bautista Alvarado, Mexican Governor of California, had granted Sutter in return for Sutter’s
becomingaMexicancitizen. Everyoneelsecalled
the installation Sutter’s Fort.
46. Bartlett, Personal Narrative, Vol. 2, pp. 71-107.
47. Ibid., pp. 259, 378.
48. Faulk, “Boundary Survey,” p. 216.
49. Ibid., pp. 220-221. In the House the effort was
led by Volney E. Howard and in the Senate by Thomas Jefferson Rusk who had fought beside Sam Houston at San Jacinto.
50. Faulk,TooFarNorth,pp.103-107,160.
51. Faulk, “Boundary Survey,” p. 222.
52. Faulk, “Boundary Survey,” p. 119; George
Griggs, History of Mesilla Valley or the Gadsden Purchase, Known in Mexico as the Treaty of Mesilla (Mesilla, New Mexico: Privately Printed, 1930), p. 56 (hereafter cited as Griggs, Mesilla Valley). Faulk states that Trias had sent 500 Mexican soldiers with 6 to 8 pieces of artillery to Mesilla but had to
withdraw them for lack of funds.
53. Faulk,TooFarNorth,pp.121-124.
54. NonaBarrickandMaryTaylor,TheMesilla
Guard, 1851-61 (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1976), p. 17 (hereafter cited as Barrick and Taylor, Mesilla Guard); Larry Durwood Ball, The United States Marshals of New Mexico and Arizona Ter- ritories, 1846-1912 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978), p. 27. According to Baldwin, “Short History”, p. 320, at that time the river was between Mesilla and Las Cruces but changed its course during a flood in 1862, and in 1865 it carved
a new permanent channel west of Mesilla.
55. Paul Neff Garber, The Gadsden Treaty (Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1959), p.
81 (hereafter cited as Garber, Gadsden Treaty). 56. Ibid., p. 184.
57. Faulk, Too Far North, pp. 128-132.
58. Faulk, “Boundary Survey,” p. 224.
59. Faulk, Too Far North, p. 139.
60. Ibid., p. 133.
61. Garber, Gadsden Treaty, p. 184, noted that a
boundary relocation was necessary in 1882. In recent years, the boundary was modified between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in the settlement of the Chamizal Strip necessitated when the Rio Grande changed its course and had to be rechanneled.
62. Faulk, Too Far North, p. 137.
63. Garber, Gadsden Treaty, p. 185.
64. Faulk, Too Far North, p. 145.
65. Garber, Gadsden Treaty, pp. 156-157; Griggs,
Mesilla Valley, p. 51.
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