Westward Expansion, Arizona History Lecture #3 Heidi J. Osselaer
Apache Manso (Tame Apache) settle along the Santa Cruz River starting in 1793
Early Tucson
Tubac
Louisiana Purchase
The Santa Fe Trail: Independence, MO to Santa Fe, NM
John C Fremont and Kit Carson
William “Old Bill” Williams
Bill Williams National Wildlife Refuge
Bill Williams River
The Bill Williams Mountain Men
Manifest Destiny “American Progress” by John Gast
Mormon Battalion March
Territory gained (in blue) during the Mexican American War
The Gadsen Purchase 1853
Mangas Coloradas Geronimo
Charles Poston in Tubac
Tubac
Drawing of the Colorado River from Lorenzo Sitgreaves’s Expedition
Hadji Ali (Hi Jolly) and friend
Hi Jolly monument in Quartzsite, AZ
Butterfield Overland Stage Route
Mark Twain
One of the few remaining ruins of an overland stage station Fort Bowie, Arizona
Ft. Yuma 1860
Ehrenberg
Yuma Crossing
Ehrenberg’s Quartermaster Depot
“We had one war with Mexico to take Arizona, and we should have another to make her take it back.” William Tecumseh Sherman
Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln
Battle of Picacho Peak, Spring 1862
Battle of Picacho Peak reenactment
Manuelito
The Long Walk of the Navajo
Bosque Redondo
Indian Reservations Map 1890
Cochise
Fort Bowie near Apache Pass
Fort Bowie, 1890 Ruins of cavalry barracks at Ft. Bowie today
Mangas Coloradas
Camp Grant
Two of the twenty- three children captured and enslaved during the Camp Grant Massacre.
Cochise stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains
Apacheria
San Carlos Indian Reservation, 1874
Geronimo Goyahkla “one who yawns”
Geronimo and the last band of free Native Americans
Indian Agent John Clum with Apache scouts
Ft. Huachuca
Fort Huachuca
Buffalo Soldiers
General Nelson Miles and the surrender of Geronimo, 1886
Geronimo and other Apache prisoners on their way to Florida
Lozen Dahteste
Apache Reservations
O’odham Farmers
Questions for Consideration How did life change for the native people of Arizona after the arrival of Americans? What obstacles faced Americans who desired to develop Arizona’s economy?