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Depredations were all too frequent. One was the Camp Grant Massacre of 1871. For several years, the U.S. had been trying to either eradicate or pacify the Indian tribes of Arizona Territory, with limited success. A breakthrough came in early 1871, when 1st Lt. Royal E. Whitman took command at Camp Grant, about 50 miles northeast of Tucson.
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The Camp Grant massacre culminated in the horrific deaths of 144 Aravaipa and Pinal Apache, nearly all women and children. The bodies were stripped and mutilated. In some cases, it was apparent that women "were first ravished and then shot dead," according to an account in Dee Brown's Bury My Heat At Wounded Knee.
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Camp Grant, photographed by John Karl Hillers in 1870.. Camp Grant was the name used from 1866 to 1872 for the United States military post at the confluence of the San Pedro River and Aravaipa Creek in the Arizona Territory.It is near the site of the Camp Grant massacre.. The post was first constructed in 1860, and between 1860 and 1873, the post was abandoned or destroyed and then rebuilt.
Map of the Military Reservation at Camp Grant, Arizona Arizona Memory Project
The Camp Grant massacre, on April 30, 1871, was an attack on Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches who surrendered to the United States Army at Camp Grant, Arizona, along the San Pedro River.The massacre led to a series of battles and campaigns fought between the Americans, the Apache, and their Yavapai allies, which continued into 1875, the most notable being General George Crook's Tonto Basin Campaign.
The Camp Grant Massacre True West Magazine
Camp Grant, Arizona, a woeful collection of adobe huts and dusty cannons northeast of Tucson. 1870. On April 30, 1871, the Camp Grant massacre took place. Tensions had been rising between the Apache Indians and American settlers. But the commander of Camp Grant, Lt. Royal Emerson Whitman, had recently negotiated peace with a group of Apaches.
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The Camp Grant Massacre is a phantom in Tucson's history, with both a haunting presence and absence.. A map of southern Arizona showing where the Camp Grant Massacre unfolded in relation to the San Carlos Apache Reservation, Pinal and Aravaipa Apache traditional lands, the San Carlos Apache Reservation, and Oak Flat and the proposed mine..
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Camp Grant was located on the east side of the San Pedro River, north of where the Aravaipa Creek meets the San Pedro River, between Mammouth and Winkelman, AZ. Camp Grant was moved in 1872 to the south side of Mount Graham due to an increase in malarial infections in the troops. Soon after, 1,500 Aravaipa and Pinal Apaches were moved to San.
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residents believed the Apache groups living near Camp Grant were responsible. On April 28, 1871, a group of nearly 150 men, Anglo-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Tohono O'odham,5 set off under stealth with the intent to make war with the Apaches at Camp Grant. This group was composed of some of the most eminent men in southern Arizona, including
Inglorious Arizona Camp Grant Massacre, one of Arizona's most shameful moments
Fort Breckinridge, also called Old Camp Grant, in Arizona was the second military post to be established after the Gadsden Purchase.. Troops from the first Fort Buchanan built it in May 1860 at the San Pedro River's confluence and Aravaipa Creek. Its purpose was to protect area settlers and emigrants against hostile Indians and was first called Fort Arivaypa.
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Many Arizonans blamed the Camp Grant Apache. At dawn on April 30, a group of nearly 150 Americans, Mexicans and Tohono O'odham Indians attacked the camp. Most of the Apache men were away hunting, leaving behind women, children and old people. More than 100 Apache were killed; about 30 children were sold into slavery. No-one was ever punished.
The Camp Grant Massacre
Winner of a National Council on Public History Book Award. On April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O'odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona. Thirty or more Apache children were stolen and.
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In March 1873, Camp Grant at the junction of the San Pedro and Aravaipa Rivers was abandoned. Today, it's the site of Central Arizona College. The new Fort Grant is no longer a military fort, but a location for state prisons. Immediately following the massacre, a reservation was set aside for the Apaches at Camp Grant.
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Camp Grant Massacre, Arizona. Situated at the confluence of the San Pedro River and Aravaipa Creek, the location of Camp Grant was the home of the Arivaipa Apache before they had been driven from it by white settlers. In February 1871, five starving old Aravaipa women came to the camp under a flag of truce asking for sanctuary, which Lieutenant.
The Camp Grant Massacre
Fort Grant is a state prison and a former United States Army fortification in the U.S. state of Arizona. Fort Grant is located on the southwestern slope of Mount Graham in what is now Graham County. The post is named for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. [1]
Scene of the Camp Grant Massacre, Arizona Watercolour World
Camp Grant was the name used from 1866 to 1872 for the United States military post at the confluence of the San Pedro River and Aravaipa Creek in the Arizona Territory. It is near the site of the Camp Grant massacre. The post was first constructed in 1860, and between 1860 and 1873, the post was abandoned or destroyed and then rebuilt multiple.
The Camp Grant Massacre Arizona True West Magazine
Camp Grant, AZ, in 1870, one year before the tragic massacre of over 100 unarmed Apaches, mostly women and children. (National Archives) Tohono O'odham Indians spearheaded an attack against sleeping Apaches in 1871, but Mexican and white residents of Tucson were behind the notorious Camp Grant Massacre. By 1871 citizens in Tucson, then.