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...Read more150 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.
today july 7, 150 years ago, kit carson
today july 7, 150 years ago, kit carson led his 1,000 soldiers, utes, and jicarilla apaches to round up the navajo nation and take them to Bosque redondoRead more150 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.