New Photos Coming UP
There'll be some new photos coming up soon.
I'll be on the pending August 7th "Voices Of The West," from Emil Franzi's program of same name, Arizona Time (4 PM), New Mexico Time, 5 PM. I hope to talk up the current article, "From Water To Water," & also mention the Arizona Historical Society in general, & the outstanding exhibit on: "Geronimo: Revered & Reviled."
I'll be on the pending August 7th "Voices Of The West," from Emil Franzi's program of same name, Arizona Time (4 PM), New Mexico Time, 5 PM. I hope to talk up the current article, "From Water To Water," & also mention the Arizona Historical Society in general, & the outstanding exhibit on: "Geronimo: Revered & Reviled."
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Been a long, long while since I published anything. Questions?
Been a long, long while since I published anything. Questions?
I'm on KURU 89.1 FM radio, Wednesday, August 5, @ 9:00 AM with Paula Geisler. We'll talk about the Butterfield Overland Mail Line and hopefully, I can discuss the Freeman Thomas Massacre, July 20-22, 1862, IN Cooke's Cañon. The Freeman Thomas Group were seven union sympathizers who were fleeing a very Confederate Mesilla, just ahead of arrest as "spies" or at least, sympathizers. They were heavily armed men, all very well aware of the dangers that lay with going through Cooke's Cañon. Thomas, I believe, was an experienced stage driver of the Butterfield. He knew that in order to pass through the cañon, it was best to do so at night. Apparently, the stage or horses needed reshoeing or maintenance that took much of the night. The men therefore did not get going until morning. They may have entered the narrowest defile, and there, the ambush may have begun. If they made it through there, that was fortunate. They went on, being chased, or harassed, by Apaches. At one point, the driver (who knew the cañon well), took it off the trail and purposely dumped it on it's side. The men inside must have been prepared, and took guns, ammo, and surely, whatever water they might've been carrying, and beat it up the slope. There, they constructed a crude, hastily built breastwork, circular, and began defending themselves. The Apaches would've had the high ground in all directions. As such, they were able to direct plunging fire down on the men. If that supposition is correct, the men's prone bodies, or even their bodies crunched up against rocks, pieces of trees, etc., would've been exposed to fire. The Apaches were both from Mangas Coloradas's Chokonen Bedonkohe and Cochise's Chokonen Chiricahuas. Both were Chiricahuas. Whether any of the Chihenne N'de Eastern Chiricahuas were there, I don't know. The Apaches eventually killed all the seven brave men, and mutilated their bodies, apparently to keep such brave warriors from venturing into the next world with their fighting abilities intact. Such was Apache belief.
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