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Apaches (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974), p. 19 (hereafter cited as Thrapp, Victorio).
97. WayneR.Austerman,“’ApacheJack’Gor- don: DesperadoofthePass,”PasswordVol.33 (Summer, 1988), p. 56 (hereafter cited as Auster- man, “Desperado”); Wayne R. Austerman, “A Postscript on ’Apache Jack’ Gordon,” Password Vol. 34 (Spring, 1989), p. 41.
98. Bender, “Mescalero Apaches,” p. 14. Unfor- tunately this source neglected to report the outcome of the expedition, nor could a substantiating refer- ence be located. In all probability though, the “Mexican Dragoons” were local militia from Mesilla and/or Dona Ana.
99. Lee Myers, “Military Establishments in South- western New Mexico: Stepping Stones to Settle- ment,” New Mexico Historical Review Vol. 43 (Jan., 1968), pp. 6-7 (hereafter cited as Myers, “Military Establishments”); Ogle, “Western Apaches,” Vol.
14, pp. 339-341. The installation was occupied on January 23, 1852, by Steen’s Company K, Third United States Infantry and was named in honor of Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster.
100. Ogle, “Western Apaches,” Vol. 14, p. 344.
101. Dale F. Giese, Echoes of the Bugle (no pub- lisherlocation):PhelpsDodgeCorporation,1976), p. 48 (hereafter cited as Giese, Echoes); Metz, Fort Bliss pp. 20-21.
102. Thrapp, Victorio, p. 27.
103. Bender, “Mescalero Apaches,” p. 22.
104. Ogle, “Western Apaches,” Vol. 14, p. 342.
105. Barrick and Taylor, Mesilla Guard, p. 10.
106. Tiller, Jicarilla Apache, p. 54.
107. Ogle, “Western Apaches,” Vol. 14, p. 343.
108. Thrapp,Victorio,p.27.
109. Griggs, Mesilla Valley, pp. 58-59; Myers,
“Military Establishments,” p. 7. On September 9, 1852,FortWebsterwasmoved,completewithname, to a little west of present-day San Lorenzo, ap- proximatelyatthejunctionofNewMexicoState Roads 61 and 90.
110. Griggs, Mesilla Valley, p. 59.
111. Ibid., pp. 59-60.
112. Grant Foreman, Marcy & the Gold Seekers:
The Journal of Captain R. B. Marcy, with an Account ofthe Gold Rush Over the Southern Route (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1939), p. 315. Stanley Crocchiola, The Fort Thom New Mexico Story (Pep, Texas:PrivatePublication,1965),p.8. According toLewisB.HarrisinMabelleEppardMartin(ed.),
“From Texas to California in 1849: Diary of C. C. Cox,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 29 (Jan.,1926),p.221(hereaftercitedasMartin,“C.C. Cox”),Cox,usingtheassociation’sboat,hadsaved one man from drowning in the Colorado River. If they had remained there only a few hours longer they might have saved Thorn. Major Steen, the first com- mander of Fort Thorn was a native of Kentucky and not a graduate of West Point. He had been closely associated with Herman Thorn and may have been instrumental in naming the fort.
113. Bennett, Forts and Forays, p. 59.
114. Robert Marshall Utley, Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Anny and the Indian, 1848-1865 (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967), pp. 143-144 (hereafter cited as Utley, Frontiersmen ).
115. Barrick and Taylor, Mesilla Guard, p. 19. 116. Thrapp, Victorio, p. 42.
117. James G. Bell, “A Log of the Texas-California
Cattle Trail, 1854,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 35 (Apr., 1932), p. 294 (hereafter cited as Bell, “Cattle Trail”).
118. Thrapp, Victorio, p. 43; Giese, Echoes, p. 47. This treaty also failed ratification.
119. Utley, Frontiersmen, pp. 153-154.
120. BenjaminH.Sacks,“TheOriginsofFort Buchanan, Myth and Fact,” Arizona and the West, Vol. 7 (Autumn, 1965), pp. 209-211 (hereafter cited as Sacks, “Fort Buchanan”. Sacks claims that the traditional date of March 10, for the removal of the Mexican garrison, is incorrect and that the evacua- tion had been accomplished earlier.
121. Robert Walter Frazer, Forts and Supplies, the Role of the Anny in the Economy of the Southwest, 1846-1861(Albuquerque:UniversityofNewMexico Press, 1983), pp. 123-125 (hereafter cited as Frazer,
Forts and Supplies); Sacks, “Fort Buchanan,” pp. 210,216-218. Somehowalongtheway,apassand peak were bequeathed Steen’s name albeit misspelledasStein. Historiansandmapmakers have not yet seen fit to make the correction as was accomplished in Cooke’s case.
122. Utley, Frontiersmen, p. 155.
123. Frazer, Forts and Supplies, p. 110.
124. Wilson, Historical Profde, p. 44.
125. Perrigo, American Southwest, p. 180; Oscar
Osborn Winther, Via Western Express & Stagecoach (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968), p. 3; DonaldDaleJackson,GoldDust(NewYork:Alfred A.Knopf,1980),pp.88-92. Shortlyafterdocking,
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