A Merry Christmas at Ft.Yuma In 1849, Army engineer Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple rescued a young Yuma Indian girl who’d been lost in the desert of...
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A Merry Christmas at Ft.Yuma In 1849, Army engineer Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple rescued a young Yuma Indian girl who’d been lost in the desert of...
The Oatman family was traveling alone on the Gila Trail near today’s Gila Bend in 1851 when they were attacked by a band of Western Yavapai Indians....
Little was known about the navigability of the Colorado River above Fort Yuma until 1858 when Captain George Johnson took his steamboat, a...
The workhorse among the Army’s Corps of Topographical Engineers surveying the southern border of the New Mexico Territory during the 1850’s was Lt....