August 18, 1863

U.S. Marshal—and U.S. Army Major—Joseph Cummings is found shot dead 150 years ago today in an arroyo during Kit Carson’s roundup of the Navajos. There were $700,000 to $1,000,000 of today’s dollars in his saddlebags. Carson reports,...

150 Years Ago Today

August 3, 1863 Kit Carson, frustrated by his inability to actually find any Navajos in his war to round up the Navajo, ordered Major Joseph Cummings, also Santa Fe’s U.S. Marshal, to implement a scorched earth policy. All Navajo homes, crops, and their beloved...

150 years ago today, July 10, 1863, General James H. Carleton learned at Los Pinos, New Mexico of Gettysburg and Vicksburg. He ordered western Territory forts to celebrate the victories and sent Kit Carson the rest of his Army for the Navajo roundup.

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150 years ago today (150 yards from where I am now sitting in Santa Fe), June 17, 1863, a group of con artists discovered the time-honored fact that there is no honor among thieves. “Where They Bury You,” coming to Amazon and a bookstore near you from Sunstone Press.

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