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Apache Pass

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Apache Pass, also known by its earlier Spanish name Puerto del Dado ("Pass of the Die"), is an historic mountain pass in the U.S. state of Arizona between the Dos Cabezas Mountains and Chiricahua Mountains at an elevation of. [1]

44 relations: Apache, Apache Wars, Arizona, Bascom affair, Battle of Apache Pass, Burro Cienega, Butterfield Overland Mail, Butterfield Overland Mail in New Mexico Territory, Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise, Cochise County, Arizona, Cooke's Wagon Road, Dos Cabezas Mountains, Doubtful Canyon, Dragoon Springs, Arizona, Ewell Station, Fort Bowie, Fresh water, George Nicholas Bascom, Geronimo, Gleeson gunfight, John Clum, John Coffee Hays, Mesilla, New Mexico, Mormon Battalion, Mountain pass, National Park Service, New Mexico, Oliver Otis Howard, Philip St. George Cooke, San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, San Francisco, San Simon River (Arizona), San Simon, Arizona, Southern Emigrant Trail, Spring (hydrology), St. Louis, Stein's Peak Station, Tom Jeffords, Tucson Cutoff, Tucson, Arizona, U.S. state, United States, Willcox, Arizona.

Apache

The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains and Western Apache.

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Apache Wars

The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States Army and various Apache nations fought in the southwest between 1849 and 1886, though minor hostilities continued until as late as 1924.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Bascom affair

The Bascom affair was a confrontation between Apache Indians and the United States Army under Lt.

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Battle of Apache Pass

The Battle of Apache Pass was fought in 1862 at Apache Pass, Arizona, in the United States, between Apache warriors and the Union volunteers of the California Column as it marched from California to capture Confederate Arizona and to reinforce New Mexico's Union army.

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Burro Cienega

Burro Cienega, a stream that arises at an elevation of 5990 feet, at, in the Big Burro Mountains, in Grant County and whose mouth is at 4196 feet at a playa about 5.5 miles southeast of Lordsburg in Hidalgo County, New Mexico.

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Butterfield Overland Mail

The Butterfield Overland Mail Trail was a stagecoach service in the United States, operating from 1857 to 1861.

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Butterfield Overland Mail in New Mexico Territory

The Butterfield Overland Mail was a transport and mail delivery system that employed stagecoaches that traveled on a specific route between Saint Louis, Missouri and San Francisco, California and which passed through the New Mexico Territory.

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Chiricahua Mountains

The Chiricahua Mountains massif is a large mountain range in southeastern Arizona which is part of the Basin and Range province of the west and southwest USA and northwest Mexico; the range is part of the Coronado National Forest.

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Cochise

Cochise (Cheis or A-da-tli-chi, in Apache K'uu-ch'ish "oak"; c. 1805 – June 8, 1874) was leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen ("central" or "real" Chiricahua) and principal chief (or nantan) of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache.

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Cochise County, Arizona

Cochise County is located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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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.

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Dos Cabezas Mountains

The Dos Cabezas Mountains are a mountain range in southeasternmost Arizona, USA.

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Doubtful Canyon

Doubtful Canyon was the name of two canyons in the Peloncillo Mountains, once considered in the 19th century as one canyon that served as the pass through those mountains.

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Dragoon Springs, Arizona

Dragoon Springs is an historic site in what is now Cochise County, Arizona, at an elevation of.

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Ewell Station

Ewell Station, a later station of the Butterfield Overland Mail located 24.4 miles east of Dragoon Springs, Arizona and 12.22 miles west of Apache Pass Station.

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Fort Bowie

Fort Bowie was a 19th-century outpost of the United States Army located in southeastern Arizona near the present day town of Willcox, Arizona.

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Fresh water

Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.

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George Nicholas Bascom

George Nicholas Bascom (1837 – February 21, 1862) was a U. S. Army officer, in Arizona and in the American Civil War.

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Geronimo

Geronimo (Goyaałé "the one who yawns"; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe.

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Gleeson gunfight

The Gleeson gunfight, or the Gleeson shootout, was one of the last gunfights in the Old West, having occurred during the transition period between the "Old" and the "New." On March 5, 1917, the sheriff of Cochise County, Harry C. Wheeler, and his deputy, Lafe Gibson, were ambushed by a gang of Mexican alcohol smugglers near the town of Gleeson, Arizona.

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John Clum

John Philip Clum (September 1, 1851 - May 2, 1932) was an Indian agent for the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in the Arizona Territory.

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John Coffee Hays

John Coffee "Jack" Hays (January 28, 1817 – April 21, 1883) was a captain in the Texas Rangers and a military officer of the Republic of Texas.

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Mesilla, New Mexico

Mesilla (also known as La Mesilla and Old Mesilla) is a town in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States.

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Mormon Battalion

The Mormon Battalion, the only religiously based unit in United States military history, served from July 1846 – July 1847 during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848.

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Mountain pass

A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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Oliver Otis Howard

Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Philip St. George Cooke

Philip St.

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San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation

The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, in southeastern Arizona, United States, was established in 1872 as a reservation for the Chiricahua Apache tribe as well as surrounding Yavapai and Apache bands forcibly removed from their original homelands under a strategy devised by General Crook of using an Apache to catch an Apache.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Simon River (Arizona)

San Simon River is an ephemeral river, or stream running through the San Simon Valley in Graham and Cochise County, Arizona and Hidalgo County, New Mexico.

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San Simon, Arizona

San Simon is a census-designated place in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.

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Southern Emigrant Trail

Southern Emigrant Trail, also known as the Gila Trail, the Kearny Trail, Southern Trail and the Butterfield Stage Trail, was a major land route for immigration into California from the eastern United States that followed the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico during the California Gold Rush.

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Spring (hydrology)

A spring is any natural situation where water flows from an aquifer to the Earth's surface.

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St. Louis

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Stein's Peak Station

Stein's Peak Station, was one of the original stage stations of the Butterfield Overland Mail.

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Tom Jeffords

Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Jeffords (January 1, 1832 – February 19, 1914) was a United States Army scout, Indian agent, prospector, and superintendent of overland mail in the Arizona Territory.

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Tucson Cutoff

The Tucson Cutoff was a significant change in the route of the Southern Emigrant Trail.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Willcox, Arizona

Willcox is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Pass

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