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Published Articles

Wells in the Desert The location of Alamo Mocho well, visited by Kearny and Cooke in 1846. Published in the Autumn 2009 issue of the Journal of Arizona History.

Forty Niners Over the Mogollon Rim An examination of the first leg of the journey of Lt. Edward Beckwith and Capt. Herman Thorn, escorting the party of James Collier from Zuni to San Francisco in 1849. Published in the November, 2009 issue of Territorial Times.

The San Carlos Area

Dick Spring Trip, December 2002  Looking for Whipple's Needle's Eye detour, the "Canyon on the Gila" location, and the abandoned wagons.

Preliminary Investigation of Whipple's Route in the Pinal Mountains - February 2003 A quick look at upper Ranch Creek, the Dripping Springs Valley, and Winkelman.

Mescal Warm Springs.  Whipple's route investigated in March 2003

Analysis of Whipple’s Route from October 28-30, 1851 in light of field observations from March 2003

Needle's Eye Trip, November 2003 Finding the location of the Seth Eastman's 1853 watercolor.

Upper Ranch Creek Trip - October 2004  Information from interviews with local ranchers and a little back road exploration.

The San Carlos Trail - October 2004  Developing data on an Indian trail through the San Carlos area.

Eastern Gila River

General Stephen Watts Kearny’s Trail from the New Mexico Border to San Carlos  A paper delivered at the Arizona History Convention in Safford, 2004. 

The Inverted Pyramid: An Important Landmark on Kearny's 1846 Trail   A paper delivered April 29, 2006 at the Arizona History Convention in Tucson.  Describes Kearny's trail southeast of Globe Arizona on November 1-2, 1846

Northern Arizona

Baca Float Trip - June, 2006  Investigating Amiel Whipple's Pacific Railroad Survey (1854) on today's Luis Maria Baca Float No. 5 (ORO Ranch), northwest of Prescott.

 

Andrew Wallace

Where Was New Year's Spring?  A paper presented at the Arizona History Convention in Nogales.

 

 

James Russell Barnes

Wagon Road West "Revisited" An article relating to the Beale Road.  Originally published in the March 1999 issue of the Tazewell County Historical Society Newsletter

 

 

 

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