For years before and after this time, the…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

For years before and after this time, the crossing of the Mimbres was a station on the southern overland route from southwest Mis- souri to El Paso, and thence by way of Mesilla and the Mimbres on to the Pacific coast, touch- ing at Tucson and the military posts in Arizona and southern California.