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Category Archives: Apaches

Coronado Expedition of 1540-1542

December 29, 2012

  TRACING ANCIENT TRAILS IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO The year was 1539 and the young Spanish Conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado had just been installed as the new Governor of the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia, a province of New Spain … Continue reading →

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A Time-Travel Hike Up Mineral Creek to Cooney Camp & Mine

February 12, 2012

On September 2, 1877, the Apache Chief Victorio, a major leader of the Chihenne band of the Chiricahua Apache, and four other Chihenne chiefs — Loco, Nana, Mangas, and Tomaso Coloradas — fled the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, along … Continue reading →

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