Letter from Joaquín Elías to Governor of Sonora, May 1832, discussing a campaign by the "Patriotic Section" against the Apache in the vicinity to Tres Alamos and Aravaipa Canyon.
A rich array of primary sources generated by a single, troubling event–the Camp Grant Massacre of 1871– illuminates the world of the mid-nineteenth-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands. This world was home to an unusually diverse collection of human communities: Anglo Americans, Mexican …