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The Dragoon Mountains is a range of mountains located in Cochise County, Arizona. The range is about 25 mi (40 km) long, running on an axis extending south-south east through Willcox . The name originates from the 3rd U.S. Cavalry Dragoons who battled the Chiricahua , including Cochise, during the Apache Wars .
Dragoon Springs is an historic site in what is now Cochise County, Arizona, at an elevation of 4,925 feet (1,501 m). The name comes from a nearby natural spring , Dragoon Spring , to the south in the Dragoon Mountains at 5,148 feet (1,569 m) ( 31°59′5″N 110°0′56″W / 31.98472°N 110.01556°W / 31.98472; -110.01556
Dragoon National Forest was established in Arizona on May 25, 1907, covering 69,120 acres (280 km 2). On July 1, 1908, it was combined with Santa Catalina National Forest and Santa Rita National Forest to create Coronado National Forest. [1] The name was discontinued. [2] Dragoon Mountains, Arizona, viewed from the south.
The First Battle of Dragoon Springs was a minor skirmish between a small troop of Confederate dragoons of Governor John R. Baylor's Arizona Rangers, and a band of Apache warriors during the American Civil War. It was fought on May 5, 1862, near the present-day town of Benson, Arizona, in Confederate Arizona.
Mount Glenn, is in the Coronado National Forest, about 75 miles (121 km) east of Tucson, Arizona.The summit, in Cochise County, is the highest point in the Dragoon Mountains [2] and is a popular local hiking destination.
Dragoon is in an area known as the Sky Island in the United States and is a high mountain valley ranging in elevation from 4,500 to 5,000 ft. The proper name for Sky Islands is Madrean Archipelago which covers an area of approximately 40,536 km2 (15,651 mi2) in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.
Cochise Stronghold, Dragoon Mountains, southeastern Arizona. Following various skirmishes, Cochise and his men were gradually driven into Arizona's Dragoon Mountains, but used the mountains for cover and as a base from which to continue attacks against white settlements. Cochise evaded capture and continued his raids against white settlements ...
Forts and Forays, James A. Bennett: A Dragoon in New Mexico 1850–1856. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. Hildreth, James (1836). Dragoon Campaigns to the Rocky Mountains, Being a History of the Enlistment, Organization, and first Campaigns of The Regiment Of United States Dragoons. New York: Wiley & Long, No. D. Fanshaw, Printer.