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Cooke's Wagon Road
Cooke's Wagon Road or Cooke's Road was the first wagon road between the Rio Grande and the Colorado River to San Diego, through the Mexican provinces of Nuevo México, Chihuahua, Sonora and Alta California, established by Philip St. George Cooke and the Mormon Battalion, from October 19, 1846 to January 29, 1847 during the Mexican–American War. It became the first of the wagon routes between New Mexico and California that with subsequent modifications before and during the California Gold Rush eventually became known as the Southern Trail or Southern Emigrant Trail. Cooke and the Mormon Battalion establish the route On February 22, 1847, Philip St. George Cooke submitted a report of his journey, printed by the U. S. Senate in 1849, as the "Official Journal of Lieutenant Colonel Philip St. George Cooke from Santa Fe, in New Mexico, to San Diego, in Upper California". This report recorded his experience in command of the Mormon Battalion and its expedition to establish the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camp Opposite San Diego (Cooke's Wagon Road)
Camp may refer to: Areas of confinement, imprisonment, or for execution * Concentration camp, an internment camp for political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or minority ethnic groups * Extermination camp, any of six Nazi death camps established for the systematic murder of over 2.7 million people * List of United States federal prisons#Federal prison camps, Federal prison camp, one of seven minimum-security United States federal prison facilities * Internment camp, also called a detention camp, for imprisonment (of citizens or perceived terrorists) without conviction of any crime * Labor camp, usually associated with forced or penal labor as a form of punishment * Nazi concentration camp run by the SS in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. * Prisoner-of-war camp ** Parole camp, during the U.S. Civil war, where both sides guarded their own soldiers as prisoners of war * Subcamp, one or more outlying smaller concentration camps th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guadalupe Pass (New Mexico)
Guadalupe Pass is a mountain pass located in the Guadalupe Mountains of Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It lies at an elevation of 5075 feet or 1547 m. History Guadalupe Pass was used first by the Spanish and then by the Mexicans for Janos - Fronteras Road between Chihuahua and Fronteras, Sonora from the late 17th century. In 1846, American soldiers of the Mormon Battalion led by Philip St. George Cooke used the pass and the old road for the route of Cooke's Wagon Road between the pass and the San Pedro River. This road was heavily used by the 49ers during the California Gold Rush The California gold rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the U .... It was soon after replaced by a more direct route, the Tucson Cutoff to the north.Leland J. Hanchett, Crossing Arizona, Pine Rim Publishing, Cave Cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackwater, Arizona
Blackwater is a native village and census-designated place (CDP) on the Gila River Indian Community, Gila River Reservation in Pinal County, Arizona, Pinal County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,062 at the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census, up from 504 in 2000. Geography Blackwater is located at (33.032359, -111.595938). It is located northeast of Coolidge, Arizona, Coolidge. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Demographics Blackwater first appeared on the 1990 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP). As of the census of 2000, there were 504 people, 135 households, and 110 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 140 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 95% Race (United States Census), Native American, 1% Race (United States Census), White, 3% from Race (United States Census), other races, and 1% from two or more races. 15% of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacaton
Sacaton ( Pima: Geʼe Ki: ''Big House'') is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. The population was 3,254 at the 2020 census. It is the capital of the Gila River Indian Community. Geography Sacaton is located at (33.079911, −111.745784). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,584 people, 378 households, and 303 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 387 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 2.0% White, 95.0% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 0.6% from other races, and 2.3% from two or more races. 7.1% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 378 households, out of which 40.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 26.2% were married couples living together, 41.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 19.6% were non-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Camp Beyond Tucson
Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system Places * 3rd Street (other) * Third Avenue (other) * Highway 3 Music Music theory *Interval number of three in a musical interval **Major third, a third spanning four semitones **Minor third, a third encompassing three half steps, or semitones **Neutral third, wider than a minor third but narrower than a major third **Augmented third, an interval of five semitones **Diminished third, produced by narrowing a minor third by a chromatic semitone *Third (chord), chord member a third above the root *Degree (music), three away from tonic **Mediant, third degree of the diatonic scale **Submediant, sixth degree of the diatonic scale – three steps below the tonic **Chromatic mediant, chromatic relationship by thirds *Ladder of thirds, similar to the ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tucson
Tucson (; ; ) is a city in Pima County, Arizona, United States, and its county seat. It is the second-most populous city in Arizona, behind Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, with a population of 542,630 in the 2020 United States census. The Tucson metropolitan statistical area had 1.043 million residents in 2020 and forms part of the Tucson-Nogales combined statistical area. Tucson and Phoenix anchor the Arizona Sun Corridor. The city is southeast of Phoenix and north of the United States–Mexico border It is home to the University of Arizona. Major incorporated suburbs of Tucson include Oro Valley, Arizona, Oro Valley and Marana, Arizona, Marana northwest of the city, Sahuarita, Arizona, Sahuarita south of the city, and South Tucson, Arizona, South Tucson in an enclave south of downtown. Communities in the vicinity of Tucson (some within or overlapping the city limits) include Casas Adobes, Arizona, Casas Adobes, Catalina Foothills, Arizona, Catalina Foothills, Flowing Wells, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mescal Still-house
Mescal and Mescall may refer to: Places * Mescal, Arizona, census designated place in Arizona * Mescal Arroyo, creek in Pima County, Arizona * Mescal Mountains, series of connected mountain ridges in southern Gila County, Arizona * Mescal Range, mountain range in California People * Nell Mescal (born 2003), Irish singer-songwriter * Paul Mescal (born 1996), Irish actor * Don Mescall, Irish singer-songwriter * Greg Mescall (born 1981), sports commentator * John J. Mescall (1899-1962), American cinematographer Other * Mescal agave, alternative name of the plant, ''Agave parryi'' * Mescal bean, alternative name of the plant, ''Dermatophyllum'' * Mescal, a Coahuiltecan tribe * Mescal, a character in the 1924 film '' The Heritage of the Desert'' played by Bebe Daniels * Mezcal, alcoholic drink made from the Mescal agave plant See also * Mezcal, Mexican distilled alcoholic beverage * Mescaline Mescaline, also known as mescalin or mezcalin, and in chemical terms 3,4,5-trimethoxyp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Pedro River (Arizona)
The San Pedro River is a northward-flowing stream originating about south of the international border south of Sierra Vista, Arizona, in Cananea Municipality, Sonora, Mexico. The river starts at the confluence of other streams (Las Nutrias and El Sauz) just east of Sauceda, Cananea. Within Arizona, the river flows north through Cochise County, Arizona, Cochise County, Pima County, Arizona, Pima County, Graham County, Arizona, Graham County, and Pinal County, Arizona, Pinal County to its confluence with the Gila River, at Winkelman, Arizona. It is the last major undammed desert river in the Southwestern United States, American Southwest, and it is of major ecological importance as it hosts two-thirds of the avian diversity in the United States, including 100 species of breeding birds and almost 300 species of migrating birds. History The first people to enter the San Pedro Valley were the Clovis people who hunted mammoth here from 10,000 years ago. The San Pedro Valley has the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Gulch (Cochise County, Arizona)
''Gold Gulch'' was the largest concession stand built for visitors at the California Pacific International Exposition, a world's fair open from 1935 to 1936 in San Diego, California. ''Gold Gulch'' was a section celebrating the California gold rush and the American frontier. Description ''Gold Gulch'', located within the World's Fairgrounds in Balboa Park, was a Old West mining town and ghost town re-creation for fairgoers to experience the atmosphere of a mining boomtown. ''Gold Gulch'' was described in the Exposition Guide Book as "a moviefied" version of riproaring '49 days. ''Gold Gulch'' occupied the canyon between the House of Charm and Pepper Grove, southeast of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. It was composed of a dance hall and a music hall, rustic unpainted shacks, a brick bank with iron-barred windows, a "Chinese restaurant and laundry", and a hanging tree with a "dummy" hanging. Barkers lured visitors to a shooting gallery where a visiting "sharpshooter" hitting th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitewater Draw
Whitewater Draw, originally Rio de Agua Prieta, panish: river of dark water is a tributary stream of the Rio de Agua Prieta in Cochise County, Arizona. It was called Blackwater Creek by Philip St. George Cooke when his command, the Mormon Battalion, camped at a spring on its course on December 5, 1846. Philip St. George Cooke, ''The Conquest of New Mexico and California'', G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1878, pp. 91–109, 125–96 [142/ref> Whitewater Draw has its source at an elevation of 8,520 feet at in Rucker Canyon in the Chiricahua Mountains in the Coronado National Forest and flows generally westward, skirting the north end of the Swisshelm Mountains, then southwest and south through Sulphur Springs Valley into Mexico at Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta to, Sonora, Mexico. There it flows southward as Rio de Agua Prieta then southeast to join the Rio de San Bernardino at an elevation of , at La Junta de los Rios about 24.5 miles southeast of Douglas, Arizona. The San Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
