Identifier: personalnarrativ01bart (find matches)
Title: Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Subjects: Joint Boundary Commission (United States and Mexico) Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Company
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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n October last. Hearing from him thatGeneral Blanco was within, I left the train and accom-panied the Captain to pay my respects to him. General Blanco informed me that the depredationsof the Apaches had lately been more frequent thanever. Many animals had been stolen in the immedi-ate vicinity of Tucson, Tubac, and Santa Cruz; andmany Mexicans had lost their lives. The troops had hadsome skirmishes with the Indians, in which ColettoAmarillo, one of the chiefs who so frequently visitedus at the Copper Mines, was killed. The General fur-thermore told me that when on his march he fell upona large Indian trail, and noticed among the footprintsseveral made by new American shoes, which he readilydistinguished from the Mexican shoes by their largersize and heels. He believed that there were Ameri-cans among them, or that they had murdered androbbed some party of emigrants. In October, whenthe weather should be cooler, and the rainy seasonpast, it was his intention to make a campaign against
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SANTA CRUZ. . 293 the Apaches on the Gila, and thence go to the Mogo-llon Mountains, near the Copper Mines. After half anhour spent with the General, I rode a mile from thetown, and there found my party encamped on thebanks of the Santa Cruz River, where there was anabundance of grass. Near our camp we found Mr. Coons, an American,on his way to San Francisco, with 14,000 sheep. Forthe protection of this large flock, he had sixty persons,forty-five of whom were Americans, and fifteen Mexi-cans. He quieted our anxiety as to grass and water,having found an abundance of both on his route.There had been much rain, and the grass was in conse-quence in fine condition. He had met many Indiansnear the Guadalupe Pass, but would not allow them toenter his camp. When near Janos, a party of Apachesrushed among them during the day, and succeeded inrunning off fourteen mules and horses. Mr. Coonswas entirely unprepared for the attack, particularly asthe rascals approached him from- the town where th

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