Fort Cummings And Massacre Canyon.

RON SWARTLEY

Publication: Frontier Image Press, 2004, Silver City

First edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, 30 pp. [2], illustrated, map. It was the time of the Apache Wars in southern New Mexico and it was decided that a military presence needed to be established in the middle of the desolate area where immigrants, miners, soldiers, ranchers, and frontiersmen were preyed upon by the Chiricahua Apaches. It was decided that Cooke's Spring would be the site of the frontier fort....Fort Cummings. For more than twenty years its troops protected travelers through Massacre Canyon, pursued by the likes of Geronimo, escorted beef herds, wagon trains, and chased bandits. Fine copy.

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