Newsletter of the Southwest Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association January, 2005

From the Editors Trail Turtles Head North

In this newsletter we give the The SWOCTA Trail Turtles report of the SWOCTA Trail Turtles‟ played hooky from the southern trails Fall 2004 trip on the Applegate Trail. this fall. Don Buck and Dave Hollecker The Turtles made extensive use of the offered to guide the Turtles over the recently published Applegate Trail Applegate Trail from Lassen Meadows Guide (see the advertisement on the back to Goose Lake. In a way, it could be said cover of this issue). The Turtles felt that we were still on a southern trail, as “appreciation for those who … have the Applegate Trail was also known as spent long hours researching and finding the Southern Trail to Oregon when it … this trail that [has] been waiting to first opened. again be part of the … historical record.” After learning of the ruggedness We hope that the Turtles‟ ongoing of the trip, and with the knowledge there efforts to map the southwestern emigrant would be no gas, food or ice for 300 trails also will lead to a guidebook, for miles, everyone loaded up appropriately. which future users will feel a similar The number of vehicles was limited to appreciation. eight to facilitate time constraints and We (the “Trail Tourists”) also lack of space in some parking and include a record of our recent trip to camping areas. Fourteen people explore the Crook Wagon Road. attended. Unfortunately, we received our copy of the new guidebook, General Crook Road in Arizona Territory, by Duane Hinshaw, only after our trip. We include a review by Tracy DeVault of a recent book that gives the history of Harry Summerhayes, the son of Martha Summerhayes. We strongly encourage readers of Desert Tracks to Group photo (Judy DeVault) submit similar items in the future. We remind the reader that Desert We met Don and Dave at Fallon, Tracks is on the web at Nevada, to begin the trip. As an extra, http://www.physics.uci.edu/~jmlawren/SWOCTA.html we saw part of the dreaded 40-Mile Desert between Soda Lake and the Deborah and Jon Lawrence Humboldt Sink. Car trouble meant two

1 couples did not make it to the first night‟s camp at Rye Patch Reservoir, but they caught up with the group the next morning near the Lassen Meadows. We all had copies of the recently published Trails West Applegate Trail Guide. [See the advertisement on page 12 for guidebook details.] This gave us a lot of detailed information along the Our vehicles leaving camp at the alkali lake way. We stopped at many of the Trails called Upper High Dry. (Dave Hollecker) West markers and Don had a wealth of information to share at all our stops. The The next day we traveled along weather was at its best with warm sunny the base of the mountains at the edge of days to show off all the spectacular the Black Rock Desert. At this edge, hot scenery. springs of various temperatures are As we followed the trail across frequent. At Double Hot Springs there the Black Rock Desert and crossed the were rudimentary signs of development, dry bed of the Quinn River, the Black an outhouse, and a galvanized watering Rock landmark got closer and closer. tub that had been fitted up as a hot tub We stopped at the hot springs at the base with runoff from the springs. The of Black Rock and then pulled into our springs here are hot enough to kill and camp at a dry lakebed called Upper High are fenced off. In the distance we could Dry. This large alkali playa with its see what emigrant J. Goldsborough white surface and surrounding black Bruff called “Fremont‟s Castle.” The mountains had an almost surreal aspect closer we got to it, the more it turned to it. into a simple rock formation. Lunch was at Hardin City, a short-lived boom and bust mining town. Only a few walls and foundations remain now and you have to hunt for those. As we continued along the trail, we took a side road to the Lassen/Clapper murder site. [See textbox.] We walked to the murder site, an open area by a small stream between two steep hills. Looking up the hill and beyond the stream, we Crossing the Black Rock Desert, showing the could see the big rocks that the murderer Quinn River crossing which is dry at this time of hid behind. The rocks are pretty far up, year. Note the Black Rock in the distance. It is so that was some good shooting! visible for many miles. (Marian Johns) Camp was at Mud Meadows, The Milky Way was indeed currently a misnomer, though during milky looking in the clear air and its emigrant times it was more appropriate. glow was sufficient to allow us to walk This large meadow area is also the home out on the playa in confidence. This had to the Soldiers Meadow Ranch. Our been our longest day of driving. campsite was at some warm springs where a soak after the dusty day was very welcome.

2 night it tried to rain, but managed only a slight wetting of the landscape. However, this did bring a cold front through.

Double Hot Springs, now fenced due to the danger of the extremely hot water. (Rose Ann Tompkins)

The next morning we drove a short distance to Fly Canyon to see trail traces coming out of Mud Meadows. At the beginning of the Fly Canyon alternate We then took a short hike into the hike. The trail went over the saddle shown on the horizon. (Marian Johns) canyon to look at some emigrant inscriptions.

Emigrant inscriptions at Fly Canyon. (Ken White)

Don led us on a 3-mile hike over a portion of trail he wanted the Trail Turtles to map for him. (After mapping Wagon artifacts found on the Fly Canyon this section, we put the waypoints on alternate hike. (Marian Johns) terraserver aerials for Don.) This was an alternate trail to the very difficult route The following day High Rock through Fly Canyon. This alternate went Canyon was on the agenda. This was a over a nearby saddle. Along the way day of rock walls on both sides, caves we found several wagon parts, evidence with emigrant inscriptions, gunfire of of long ago travel. hunters echoing off the rocks, some After a late lunch, we drove the challenging driving, a hunt for a grave road through Fly Canyon, noting places and spring. It ended in the yellow where the wagons had descended over aspens at Stevens Camp. The night the rocks, leaving traces behind. Camp proved to be our coldest yet. was at High Rock Lake (dry at this time As we continued along the trail of the year) where fragments of obsidian the next morning, we came across an littered the ground, evidence of many abandoned SUV in the middle of the years of Indian occupation. During the road. This necessitated clearing brush so

3 we could get around the vehicle. As we neared Massacre Ranch, we met the owner of the vehicle walking back to it. It had quit on him and his wife and they The Lassen/ClapperMurder had walked back to their camp in the BLM cabin at Massacre Ranch. After Lassen was the Peter Lassen of Lassen towing him to the ranch, the “car Trail fame. In 1859 Lassen, Edward Clapper crazies” in our group attempted to fix his and Lemericus Wyatt were trying to locate the vehicle while his wife made us a pot of "lost" silver of James Hardin. They missed a rendezvous with another party led by Capt. coffee. Mission not accomplished on the William Weatherlow, so they camped at what car, we journeyed on. Later, after many became the murder site. A Paiute Indian miles on the back roads, we came to a stopped by, said he was hunting, and asked for real gravel road. Lunch was at Vya, ammunition. He was given some and he left Nevada, now privately owned. It is without any problems. At dawn on April 26, inhabited by a caretaker and cattle. We 1859, Lassen and Wyatt were awakened by a traveled over 49er Pass and into Surprise gunshot, which struck Clapper dead. After Valley. Crossing from Nevada into Lassen discovered Clapper‟s body, he, too, was California, we returned to civilization at killed. Wyatt took off on his horse and rode Cedarville where we headed for the bareback for four days to the Honey Lake motel, gas, and groceries. The group ate Valley. A rescue party returned to the murder site and buried Lassen and Clapper. Later, at a local restaurant, pretty well filling Lassen was exhumed and reburied in the place. Susanville. Clapper‟s body was left at the On our last day, we drove north murder site. In 1990, the remains of a human along the edge of Surprise Valley, noting were exposed along a stream. Forensics proved the tidy homes and the deer grazing in the remains were Clapper and the body was re- the pastures. We then went up over buried alongside Lassen. There is an OCTA Fandango Pass with Don showing us the marker at the murder site now. very steep grade the trail took. Today‟s Who killed Lassen and Clapper? To this road with its switchbacks gives an day, the mystery has not been solved. Paiute indication of how steep this was. As the Indians were ruled out because nothing was trail comes towards Goose Lake, there is taken, including a very tempting barrel of whisky, clothes and other provisions. a wonderful trace through the forest over However, Lassen's rifle was missing and was the rough rocks. After lunch we viewed retrieved from a Paiute killed by Capt. one last gravesite and then made our Weatherlow in 1862. As for the survivor, descent to Goose Lake. The trip ended Wyatt, his account of what happened was here, and we all scattered for our homes. accepted as the truth. At the time of the We came away with appreciation murder, Capt. Weatherlow's party was camped for the rugged travel the emigrants had, nearby, and since he had Lassen's rifle in 1862, even near the end of their long journey. he is a possible suspect. But what would have We also had appreciation for those who been his motives to commit murder? more recently have spent long hours Richard Greene researching and finding parts of this trail that had been waiting to again be part of the known historical record.

Rose Ann Tompkins

4 Whatever Happened to Baby The first part of Ruffner‟s book Harry? details Summerhayes‟ experiences in by Melissa Ruffner Arizona. In 1878 Lieutenant Summerhayes‟ outfit was ordered out of Reviewed by Tracy DeVault Arizona and stationed in California and

I suspect that most of you have Nevada. Harry was four years old at that read Vanished Arizona: Recollections of time. Martha Summerhayes traveled the Army Life of a New England Woman back to Nantucket Island in 1879. by Martha Summerhayes. It is required Shortly thereafter, her daughter reading for anyone interested in Katherine was born in the same house southwestern history. In her book where she, herself, had been born years Summerhayes tells about coming to earlier.

Arizona in 1874 with her husband, Jack, then second lieutenant. Summerhayes‟ narrative contains superb descriptions of the places she visited, the roads she traveled and the important events she witnessed in early Arizona. Probably the most significant event, at least from her perspective, was the birth of her son Harry, the first white child born to an officer‟s family at Camp Apache. In his first few years Harry met with a number of dangerous, heartrending experiences and one can hardly read Vanished Arizona without wondering whether he survived to maturity. A few weeks ago Judy and I attended a presentation by Arizona historian Melissa Ruffner. Ruffner has set Harry Summerhayes‟ story down in her book Whatever Happened to Baby Harry? Baby Harry In 1997 three of Martha (printed with permission of Melissa Ruffner) Summerhayes‟ living descendants made Martha Summerhayes writes a tour of Arizona, visiting many of the very little more about Harry in her sites that Summerhayes mentions in her narrative. This is due to the fact that she narrative. Ruffner got word of their visit wrote her book primarily for her and made arrangements to meet them at children–and they knew what happened Camp Verde. This first meeting led to to Harry. According to Ruffner, Harry an extensive and ongoing dialogue with grew to maturity. He entered Stevens Roger Summerhayes, Martha‟s great- Institute in 1892 and graduated in 1896 grandson. Ruffner‟s research eventually with a degree in mechanical engineering. led her to visit Nantucket Island where That year he joined the General Electric Martha Summerhayes was born. Company, working in Schenectady, New York, and Lynn, Massachusetts. From

5 1897 to 1911, he worked in the Foreign their gentle manner, and finally Engineering Department of General soothed him to sleep. I was quite Electric. touched by the friendliness of it On June 6, 1900, Harry Roswell all. They laid the cradle on the Summerhayes married Marion Frances table and departed." (100-101) Stewart. While living in the West, Jack and Martha had become good friends Today this cradle-board, with the artist Frederick Remington. At perfectly intact, has a prominent place in the wedding, Remington gave Harry and the home of Martha Summerhayes' his bride an original painting with his great-grandson, Roger. I wonder how it compliments. would fare at the Antiques Roadshow? During the early 1900s Harry designed hydraulic stations and transmission lines in India. Later he designed automatic hydroelectric stations in Michigan and Iowa. In 1945, after a long and distinguished career, Harry retired from General Electric. In her narrative, Summerhayes describes a kindness paid to her shortly after Harry was born at Camp Apache.

"… The seventh day after the birth of the baby, a delegation of several squaws, wives of chiefs, came to pay me a formal visit. They brought me some finely woven baskets, and a beautiful papoose-basket or cradle, such as The cradleboard, printed with permission of they carry their own babies in. Melissa Ruffner This was made of the lightest wood, and covered with the finest Work Cited skin of fawn, tanned with birch bark by their own hands, and Ruffner, Melissa. Whatever Happened to Baby Harry: The True Story of the First Child Born to embroidered in blue beads; it was an Officer's Family at Camp Apache, Arizona their best work. I admired it, and Territory. Prescott, Arizona: Primrose Press, tried to express to them my 2003. thanks. These squaws took my baby (he was lying beside me on Summerhayes, Martha. Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England the bed), then, cooing and Woman. Dan L. Thrapp. University of chuckling, they looked about the Nebraska Press, 1979 room, until they found a small pillow, which they laid into the basket-cradle, then put my baby in, drew the flaps together, and laced him into it; they stood it up and laid it down, and laughed again in

6 On the Magollon Rim with hugs the rim where it provides Crook spectacular views of the Tonto Basin below. By Deborah and Jon Lawrence Today 138 of the original 200 miles of Crook‟s Trail are maintained. As we crossed the California The maintained trail begins in Dewey, border into Arizona, we began to read near Prescott, and proceeds east through Captain John Bourke‟s On the Border Camp Verde, up along the Mogollon With Crook (1891). The first half of this Rim, and ends at Cottonwood Wash near book covers the period when General Pinedale. Most of the old route is George Crook was commanding the marked with reflective white chevrons Department of Arizona. An aide to (V's) nailed to the trunks of trees Crook, Bourke recorded events on the adjacent to the trail. A few mileposts trail with a keen eye for detail and a with mileage indicated from Camp good deal of humor and insight. By the Verde have been placed along the trail time we reached Kingman, we had by local clubs and groups. decided to travel to Santa Fe by way of In Prescott we checked into the the Mogollon Rim so that we could hike Point of Rocks RV Campground, just sections of Crook‟s Trail. outside town. Nestled in the pines high Crook was assigned U.S. Army above the road at the edge of the Rocks, commander in Arizona Territory in this RV park is a quiet and pleasant 1871. In charge of subduing the place to stay. Bourke, discussing Apaches and forcing them onto Apache depredations in the area, reservations, he made extensive use of commented, “The mail-rider had several Indian scouts. Although Crook was times been „corraled‟ at the Point of relentless in his pursuit of Indians on Rocks” (160). After settling in, we their own territory, he was also sincerely drove into Prescott to the Sharlot Hall interested in the welfare of the Indians Museum. This museum displays and had a stronger desire to negotiate numerous Arizona historical exhibits. In with them rather than resort to conflict. addition, the original Governor‟s In need of a way to move troops and Mansion and the John C. Fremont and supplies and to patrol the northern William C. Bashford houses are located boundary of the Apache Reservation, on the site. Crook‟s soldiers began building what We concluded the day with a tour would later be called Crook‟s Road in of the Veterans Administration Medical 1872. When it was completed in 1876, it Center, the site of old Fort Whipple. connected Fort Whipple, Fort Verde, and Named after Brigadier General Amiel Fort Apache. Weeks Whipple, who served with the Besides being historically Army Corps of Topographical Engineers noteworthy, Crook‟s Trail follows the until his death in the Civil War, the post edge of a 2,000-foot escarpment, the played a major role during the Indian Mogollon Rim. Named for Juan Ignacio wars. At one time it was Crook‟s District Flores Mogollon, the Spanish colonial of Arizona headquarters. Using the self- governor of New Mexico from 1712- guided walking tour we had picked up at 1715, it forms the southern edge of the the Sharlot Hall Museum, we walked the Colorado Plateau. The highway crosses hospital grounds. Bourke describes the Crook‟s Trail at a number of places and

7 fort as a “ramshackle, tumble-down Brooks.1 Bob loaned us a copy of Zane palisade of unbarked pine logs” (160). Grey‟s Under the Tonto Rim, a story of He comments that when the wind came families who lived under the Mogollon up they “were afraid that the palisade Rim in the Tonto Basin. Zane Grey‟s was doomed”(160). Today most of the description of his novel‟s setting--“the remaining military buildings, including rolling basin black with forest,” and the barracks and officers‟ quarters, date “gigantic cliffs, escarpments, points, and from 1903 or later. Attractive, well- ledges, far as eye could see to east or preserved frame structures, they are west”--gave words to the beauty of the currently used for housing and area (15). administration of the medical center. Seven miles from the The restored historic entrance gate and campground is Fort Verde, the primary the site of Old Fort Whipple are at the base of Crook‟s U.S. Army scouts and back of the grounds by a picnic area, soldiers. Established in 1865 to protect where a historic display gives some of settlers from Indian raids, the fort is the early history. located in the Verde River Valley, about The next day we viewed the 86 miles north of Phoenix. Bourke interpretive exhibits at the newly opened comments that that he had never seen a Fort Whipple Museum. Our docents, “dirtier, greasier, more uncouth-looking Ken and Evelyn Edwards, who are also set of officers and men” than those at docents at the Fremont House, are this fort. He ascribes their filth to the knowledgeable and enthusiastic about area‟s “dust, soot, rain and grime”(212). Arizona history. The museum houses Martha Summerhayes, on the other excellent exhibits on the establishment hand, had high praise for the fort.2 and early history of the fort, including Having returned from several months at displays on Crook and the Yavapai and Fort Apache, she was impressed with Apache campaigns that he conducted. In Fort Verde‟s lace curtain windows and the future, there will be exhibits on the well-dressed women. second floor dedicated to the conversion With over 300 of his followers in of the fort to a military hospital. attendance, Chief Chalipun officially After a visit to the Charles M. surrendered to Crook at Fort Verde in Russell exhibition at Prescott‟s Phippen April 1873. Bourke describes the scene: Museum, we set out on the Crook Trail. “Crook took `Cha-lipun‟ by the hand, Our first stop was Camp Verde. and told him . . . it was of no use to talk Because two weeks earlier we had about who began this war; there were stayed at the Zane Grey house on bad men among all people . . . our duty Catalina Island, we opted for the Zane was to end war and establish peace . . .” Grey RV Park, which is six miles (213). southeast of town, on the banks of Clear In 1873 a reservation near Fort Creek. It was hot, so we were grateful Verde was established for the Tonto for the shade provided by the large old Apaches, where they stayed until cottonwoods that grow in the park near February 1875 when they were moved to the creek. The co-manager of the park, the San Carlos Reservation in a tragic Bob Page, is the great-great-great winter march. Early in the twentieth grandson of John D. Lee, and his wife‟s century, the Camp Verde Reservation mother went to school with Juanita

8 was re-established for both Apaches and mention that such places that advertise Yavapai, who now run a thriving casino. many available sites are mostly filled by We started our tour in the former “permanent” campers. We then drove to administration building where we looked the Rim Country Museum in Payson‟s at the interpretive exhibits with artifacts Green Valley Park. In addition to on military life and Indian wars history. displays on local and general Arizona The exhibits on the Indian Scouts were history, the museum has a fine exhibit on particularly informative. Park Ranger the Crook Trail. It also has information Nora Graf gave us a copy Eldon on Zane Grey and several of his personal Bowman‟s Development of the General items, including his chaps, saddle, and Crook Trail, a trail guide covering the gun. Grey wrote some of his novels sections of the trail available to the from his nearby cabin, which burned public within the Prescott, Coconino and down in 1990. The Historical Society Sitgreaves national forests. The report has plans to rebuild a replica adjacent to also includes a historical bibliography. the museum. Ms. Graf informed us that a new book A few miles east of Payson is the on the Crook Road, General Crook Road site of the bloody feud between the in Arizona Territory, was soon to arrive. Grahams and the Tewksbury families, The author is Duane Hinshaw, the known as the Pleasant Valley War former park manager at Fort Verde State (1887-1892). There are numerous Historic Park. versions as to origin of the falling out. After we toured the museum, we One theory is that it started when the visited the Commanding Officers‟ Tewksburys brought sheep into Pleasant Quarters, the Bachelors' Quarters and the Valley, which had previously been Doctor‟s Quarters on Officer's row, all exclusively cattle country. Cattle furnished in the 1880‟s period. The owners, the Graham clan attacked, grounds include a monument to the killing a sheepherder and driving off or Indian scouts who received Medals of killing the sheep. The Tewksburys Honor for their service and a historical retaliated, setting off the war. Zane marker indicating the beginning of Grey dramatized the events in his novel Crook‟s Road. To the Last Man, which highlights the We drove a few miles from the feud with a romance between his fort to Montezuma‟s Castle, a five-story, protagonists Jean Isbel, son of a 20-room cliff dwelling built by the cattleman, and Ellen Jorth, daughter of a Sinagua over 600 years ago. It is well sheep rancher. However, Marshall preserved and easily accessible. Nearby Trimble, in Arizona Adventure, stresses is Montezuma‟s Well. Bourke describes that the feud began earlier than the both this deep limestone pool, a “lakelet introduction of sheep to the area, and of eighty or ninety feet in depth,” and arose over incidents of cattle rustling. the numerous cave dwellings in the Using “The General Crook bluffs along the Verde River and Beaver Road,” a pamphlet we had picked up at Creek (149). the museum at Fort Verde, we located The next day, we continued on to the portion of Crook‟s Trail that crosses Payson. We were lucky to obtain the Highway 87 northwest of Payson. We only available overnight site in our set out with our sheepdog, Leonard, for campground-- Woodall’s often fails to an afternoon hike. The white chevrons

9 let us know we were on the actual path. Cooley and his neighbor, Marion (Gold chevrons mean that you are on the Clark, decided that the area wasn‟t large Crook Recreation Trail.) By the time we enough for both of them so one of them returned to camp, the red dust, soot and would have to leave. They determined to grime had made their impress upon each settle it over a card game of “Seven Up.” one of us. We were three dirty On the last hand, Clark said, “You show reminders of Bourke‟s description of the low and you win.” Cooley drew the Fort Verde soldiers. deuce of clubs, and Marion Cooely The next day we drove east and moved out. The town was named after stopped for a hike where the Crook Trail this game, and its main street is named crosses Highway 260 at the Moggolon Deuce of Clubs Street. Rim Visitor‟s Center. Here the trail The next morning we set out for meanders through a flat, open section of our final fort on Crook‟s Road. Located pine forest. We found an upside-down near the present town of Whitewater, exclamation point on a trail-side pine. Fort Apache was established in 1870. Was it one of General Crook‟s marker Although Bourke describes the post as in trees? “the rawest possible state and not half- We then traveled on to Showlow. constructed,” he admires the beauty of Croyden E. Cooley, a scout for Crook its setting (141-142). during the Apache campaigns of the First, we visited the recently early 1870‟s, homesteaded here with his established Apache Cultural Center. two Apache wives, Molly and Cora. His This portrays the story of the White ranch was a resting place for soldiers Mountain Apaches from their own traveling between Fort Verde and Fort perspective. Then, using the self-guided Apache on Crook‟s Road. Bourke walking tour, we strolled the grounds of writes that he once dined at Cooley‟s the fort. There are over twenty buildings home and it was “as clean as homes dating from 1870 to the 1930's. The generally are, and that the dinner served highlight for us was General Crook‟s log was as good as any to be obtained in cabin at the end of officers‟ row. This Delmonico‟s” (179). Martha houses a museum, which has informative Summerhayes stayed at the ranch in exhibits of the military history of the fort 1875. She described the two Indian and the Apache wars. Visiting both the women who prepared her “appetizing museum and the cultural center in supper” as “tidy and good-looking.” tandem, we felt that we were given a When she asked her husband which one balanced overview of the Apache-white was Cooley‟s wife, he replied: “I don‟t relations in the area. Fort Apache can know . . . both of „em, I guess.” A serve as a model for presentation of the refined New Englander, Summerhayes history of western expansion from a thought “this was too awful.” She made variety of perspectives. The the following observation: guidebooklet indicated that the White Mountain tribe intends further “I had a difficult time, in those development of Fort Apache and the days, reconciling what I saw with associated Roosevelt School as a what I had been taught was right, historical resource, including a Bed and and I had to sort over my ideas and Breakfast in one of the old officers‟ deep-rooted prejudices a good many times.” (106)

10 quarters. We hope that they are Summerhayes, Martha. Vanished Arizona: successful in this endeavor. Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman. Dan L. Thrapp. University of Reluctantly we pressed on Nebraska Press, 1979. towards Santa Fe. As we did so, we reflected on how magnanimous were the Trimble, Marshall. Arizona Adventure. views of such historic figures as Phoenix: Golden West Publishers, 1982. Summerhayes, Bourke, and Crook. We were particularly grateful for their Volunteers Needed for memoirs; thanks to their keen eye for COED Project detail, we felt as if we had experienced the Mogollon Rim with Crook. OCTA‟s Census of Overland Emigrant Documents (COED) project is 1 John D. Lee was the only man executed for working to bring hundreds of emigrant involvement in the Mountain Meadows documents into our research program. Massacre. A noted Utah historian, Juanita The Emigrant Names CD, for sale from Brooks is famous for the integrity with which she insisted upon recounting the saga of the OCTA, is based on over 2200 survey Mountain Meadows Massacre. See, for entries already in the COED database. examples, Brooks‟ The Mountain Meadows With over 1000 new document surveys Massacre (1950) and John Doyle Lee: Zealot, ready to be added, an updated version of Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat (1961). Emigrant Names is planned within the 2 For an interesting view of early travel on next year. Crook‟s Trail by a young Army wife, see Martha We currently are looking both for Summerhaye‟s Vanished Arizona, chapter 9. former surveyors and new volunteers to Summerhayes was a perceptive observer and her help obtain and survey documents by comments provide a detailed description of the Mogollon Rim and forts Whipple, Verde, and combing local resources such as libraries Apache. In 1875 she gave birth to a son. She and historical societies. We are boasts that he was the first child born to an especially in need of volunteers to work officer‟s family in Fort Apache (chapter 13). For at the following sites: the Newberry the later history of her son, see the book review Library in Chicago, the Illinois State by Tracy DeVault in this issue. Historical Library in Springfield, the Work Cited Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, the Iowa State Historical Society in Iowa Bourke, John G. On the Border with Crook. City, the Iowa State Historical Library in Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976. Des Moines, and Yale‟s Beinecke Bowman, Eldon G. Development of the General Library at New Haven, CT. In addition, Crook Trail: Arizona’s First Designated State help is needed to discover private Historic Trail. Report to Arizona Historical sources for copies of emigrant diaries, Convention, 1978. letters, and news accounts. Grey, Zane. To The Last Man. New York: We have developed a COED Pocket Books, 1976. Instruction Manual for surveyors with survey forms and maps. The committee ---. Under the Tonto Rim. New York: Pocket has volunteers to act as mentors, ready to Books, 1976. help you fill out surveys from the Hinshaw, Duane A. General Crook Road in original emigrant writings. Arizona Territory: Historic Horseback or Hiking Experience. Patagonia, Arizona: Contact: Shann Rupp at [email protected] privately printed, 2003. PO Box 753, Jamestown, CA 95327

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