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Nectar drinking bats

Posted on June 14, 2019 by discoverseaz

In southeastern Arizona hummingbird feeders may be emptied during the night by nectar-drinking bats that cross over into the U.S. from Mexico, where they have their main population centers. If you find your hummingbird feeders drained absolutely dry at dawn for several days running, you have probably been visited by these bats. They feed on…

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Pima / Maricopa Indians

Posted on June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 by discoverseaz

John C. Cremony met Pima and Maricopa Indians for the first time in 1850 when he was traveling in the Gila Bend area with the Bartlett / Conde Boundary Commission. Cremony was very favorably impressed with their friendliness and good nature, as can be seen from the following excerpt about them taken from his book, Life…

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The Heliograph in the Apache Wars

Posted on June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 by discoverseaz

“The mountains and the sun…were made his allies, the eyes of his command, and the carriers of swift messages. By a system of heliograph signals, communications were sent with almost incredible swiftness; in one instance a message traveled seven hundred miles in four hours. The messages, flashed by mirrors from peak to peak of the mountains,…

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The Capture of Geronimo

Posted on June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 by discoverseaz

The illustration above shows Geronimo and his band returning from Mexico through Skeleton Canyon with a herd of horses stolen from ranchers in Mexico. Frederic Remington, published in Harper’s Weekly, August 18, 1888 In Pursuit of Geronimo Following his surrender in 1883, Geronimo and his band had agreed to live on the San Carlos Reservation. In…

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The Butterfield Overland Stage Route

Posted on June 14, 2019 by discoverseaz

In 1858 John Butterfield of Utica, N.Y. won a government contract of $600,000 a year for six years to carry mail from St Louis to San Francisco twice a week. Butterfield spent more than a million dollars getting the company started. He ran between 100 and 250 coaches, 1000 horses, 500 mules and had about…

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The Civil War in Arizona / New Mexico Territory

Posted on June 14, 2019 by discoverseaz

Soon after the Gadsden Purchase the territorial legislature had begun petitioning the U.S. Congress to divide the huge expanse along an east-west line. The Congress in Washington, deeply involved in the sectional controversies that preceded the Civil War, refused to do this. Insofar as people in the territory were concerned about the Civil War, sympathies…

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A Campaign Against the Apaches

Posted on June 14, 2019 by discoverseaz

1885-86 written by Lieutenant Marion P. Maus, First Infantry Preface by General Nelson Miles In 1883 General George Crook made an expedition into Mexico which resulted in the return of the Chiricahua and Warm Springs Indians under Geronimo and Natchez to the Apache reservation. For nearly two years they remained quiet, when tiring of peaceful…

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George Bascom and Cochise

Posted on June 14, 2019 by discoverseaz

The Bascom Incident In her book, Chains of Command: Arizona and the Army, 1856-1875, Constance Altshuler published a detailed study of the activities of the U.S. Army in Arizona, using military records from the National Archives and other primary source material. Her study of the Bascom Incident of 1861, “the most famous incident of the pre-Territorial period,…

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Father Kino, Missionary to Pimeria Alta

Posted on June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 by discoverseaz

Father Kino’s bones can be viewed by visitors to the memorial at Magdalena de Kino By the time Father Kino reached New Spain, Jesuit and Franciscan priests had established at least the outward form of Christianity from Durango to Chihuahua and from Culiacan to the present-day Arizona border. The passage into the northeast was blocked…

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Fort Bowie National Historic Site

Posted on June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 by discoverseaz

Established during the Civil War on a former Overland Mail route, Fort Bowie (1862-1894) played a key role in the pursuit of Geronimo and his band of renegade Apaches. Free This engraving, made from a photograph, shows Geronimo and Natchez at Fort Bowie after their surrender, September 3, 1886. Fort Bowie was established in 1862 on a…

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