Crowfriend
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A note about Billy Fourr's ranch: Billy came to the ranch site in October 1979, after Cochise's death, the Chiricahua Reservation was closed & most of the Apaches were put on the concentration camp called San Carlos. Geronimo & others continued the scrap @ times but usually headed to the Sierra Madre ignoring the Fourr ranch. Ulzanna hit the area once in passing but was mostly taking horses in the San Pedro valley. Billy was a character who filed a 160 acre homestead but didn't actually prove it up for decades, threatened Congress w/ his shotgun when they formed the Nat'l Forest & refused to give the Dragoon Mtn.s to him (nearly went to the pen that time), ran woodcutters out of the mountains he illegally claimed (nearly got shot that time) & finally ended up w/ 1,280 acres of private land in the flats plus a lot of lease lands.
Thank you sir! Really great information, new to me.
A consequence of Ulzanna's legendary raid. Casper Albert was a Cochise County deputy. He owned the second largest mine in Galeyville along the east side of the Chiricahuas. Ironically, stupidly, he named his mine "The Chiricahua Chief". The smoke in the background is from the Horseshoe fire.
1885 a hellstorm of Apache vengeance against settlers in Cochise County. Every endeavor has a cost. Some paid more than others.
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