King Woolsey's Second Expedition-Report of by Augustus Brichta-Resolutions by First Legislature Commending King Woolsey and Companions-King Woolsey's Opinion of the Military-Account of Fight by William Fourr-Official The Indians' Side of the Question-Stories by Mike Burns, Mo- have-Apache-His Capture by U. S. Troops-Indian Method of Catching Animals for Food-First White Men Seen by Indians-Ill-treatment by Soldiers and Navajo Indians- Mike Burns' Story of "The Pinole Treaty"-Pimas and Mari- copas Deceive the Whites Give Apaches Bad Name- Apache Bow and Arrow Making-Fight With Soldiers Be- Mike Burns' Story of How the Indians Stole the Soldiers' Horses -Fight With New Mexican Volunteers-Killing of Mike Burns' Mother-Breaking Up of Cibicu Apaches-Mike Burns' First Scout-Yavapais and Navajos at War-Com- ing of the White Men Disguised as Indians-Commit Out- rages Breaking Up of Camp-Funeral Customs-Widows HISTORY OF ARIZONA. CHAPTER I. EARLY OPINIONS OF ARIZONA. OPINIONS OF OFFICIALS, CIVIL AND MILITARYPRECIOUS METALS IN ARIZONA-MILITARY PROSPECTING EXPEDITIONS GENERAL CARLETON'S CORRESPONDENCE. That the great wealth, or latent wealth, of Arizona and New Mexico was unappreciated for fifty years is susceptible of ample proof. Col. James Collier, Collector of the Port at San Francisco, who reached that place in November, 1849, upon his arrival there, having traversed what was then New Mexico, declared that he would not accept the entire Gila Valley as a gift. Genl. W. T. Sherman, who as a lieutenant accompanied Kearny's Expedition to California, it is claimed made the statement that we had had one war with Mexico to take Arizona, and we should have another to compel her to receive it back again. Col. Sumner, who was in command of the Military Department of New Mexico, in one of his official reports to the War Department, after calling attention to the fact that the holding of New Mexico, which then included what is now Arizona, was costing the government four millions of dollars a year, advised that the government buy out all the holders of property in that territory, remove them elsewhere, and then turn the entire country over to the Indians. |