A Time-Travel Hike Up Mineral Creek to Cooney Camp & Mine
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Entities extracted from this source (6)
Victorioperson
5 claims cited from this source
a.k.a. Head Chief of Warm Spring Apache
Cooneyplace
3 claims cited from this source
a.k.a. Cooney Camp, Cooney, N. M., Cooney
Agnes Meader Snyderperson
1 claim cited from this source
Jack Chickperson
1 claim cited from this source
James Cooneyperson
1 claim cited from this source
Mogollonplace
1 claim cited from this source
a.k.a. Mogollon, N. M.
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Hiking account and history of Mineral Creek and Cooney Camp. Detailed narrative of Victorio's War: his flight from San Carlos Reservation on September 2, 1877 with 300 Chihenne and Bedonkohe Chiricahua; his failed negotiations with the US government for a reservation at Ojo Caliente; his desperation leading to the decision to liberate his family in April 1880. Covers Victorio's attack on the Cooney Mine on April 28, 1880 — three men killed outright, miners fleeing into mountains, James Cooney and Jack Chick warning settlers in the Frisco Valley; the horses returning to the Roberts Ranch covered in blood. Includes Agnes Meader Snyder's first-hand WPA interview from 1937 (sole surviving witness of the Alma Massacre). Covers the peak of Cooney Camp at 300-400 souls with three ore processing mills including the 100-ton/day Mogollon Gold and Copper Company mill; the transition to Mogollon as veins extended into Silver Creek; the dismantling of Cooney Camp buildings and equipment in the 1910s; Mogollon reaching 6,000-8,000 at its heyday.