TRAIL GUIDE TO FORT BOWIE: Fort Bowie National Historic Site. Early military fort at Apache Pass in Arizona, from where the Apache Indian Cochise was captured--and escaped. Guide leads to and describes former and still-standing structures and sites of barracks, cemetery, corrals and stables, sutler's store, and more and leads past the location of the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass where California Volunteers marching to aid Union forces fighting Confederates in New Mexico during the Civil War were themselves ambushed by Cochise and Mangas Coloradas and several hundred warriors. Drawings map, 28 pages.
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ACROSS ARIZONA IN 1883. by Anonymous.
Reprinted from Harper's Monthly, here is an eyewitness account--gathered via train, stage, horse, and on foot--of southern Arizona. The Indians are described, the wild element at Tombstone is reported, and the mission church of San Xavier del Bac is depicted. It was a time of cowboys, City Marshall Wyatt Earp and gambler "Doc" Holliday, and Apaches--the wild frontier days of Arizona long before it became a state. Period engravings. 16 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-011-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-011-9. Order #: VIST0011 paper$3.95.


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