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The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854. The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west ...
Fort Yuma. Fort Yuma was a fort in California located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was Established in 1848. It served as a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 until 1861. The fort was retired from active military service on May 16, 1883, and transferred to the Department of the Interior.
The Fort Yuma Indian Reservation is a part of the Quechan's traditional lands. Established in 1884, the reservation, at , has a land area of 178.197 km 2 (68.802 sq mi) in southeastern Imperial County, California, and western Yuma County, Arizona, near the city of Yuma, Arizona
San Carlos Hotel – located at 106 1st. Street was built in 1930 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 1984, reference # 84000754. Stoffela Store – located at 447 Main Street was built in 1899 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 7, 1982, reference #82001659.
Iretaba City, Arizona Territory, 1864 298 mi (480 km) Fort Mohave, Arizona Territory, 1859–1890 Beale's Crossing 1858– 300 mi (480 km) Mohave City, Arizona Territory, 1864–1869 305 mi (491 km) Hardyville, Arizona Territory, 1864–1893 Low Water Head of Navigation 1864–1881 310 mi (500 km) Camp Alexander, Arizona Territory, 1867
Capacity. 35 tons. Uncle Sam, was a side-wheel paddle steamer and the first steamboat on the Colorado River in 1852. In November 1852, Uncle Sam, a 65-foot (20 m) long side-wheel paddle steamer was brought by the schooner Capacity from San Francisco to the Colorado River Delta by the next contractor to supply Fort Yuma, Captain James Turnbull.
Territory of Arizona (Confederate States), 1861–1862; Apache Wars, 1851–1886; Pah-Ute County, "Arizona's Lost County" 1865–1871; Camp Grant Massacre, 1871; Gadsden Purchase, 1853; Governors of the Territory of Arizona; History of Arizona; James Reavis, The "Baron of Arizona" Mexican–American War, 1846–1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ...
Clinton Burk. William P Steers. Children. 2 or 4. Martha Jane Canary (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] In addition to many exploits, she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok.