Arriving at Chihuahua, Kirker went to…
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James Kirkerperson
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a.k.a. Kirker
Robert McKnightperson
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a.k.a. McKnight
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ld timers,” the ad-
vance guard, who made the Santa Fe trail and
marked the route traveled by thousands in after
years; all honorable men, they never returned
to their native country ; they were married here,
raised respectable families and died in the land
of their adoption.
Arriving at Chihuahua, Kirker went to
Guadalupe Calvo, a mining hacienda in the
southern part of the state, belonging to an Eng-
lish company, where he was employed as a boss
for two years. Meantime, McKnight obtained
a lease on the Santa Rita copper mines and
writing to Kirker, requested him to come and go
in with him. With much regret he left his Eng-
lish friends to join the first good friend *he had
after his arrival in America. At that time, this
was the most fearful and dangerous enterprise
that any man could think of engaging in; the
mines were more than a hundred miles remote
from any settlement and surrounded as they
were by two tribes of the worst blood-spilling
Indians on the continent; it was like going
through the gates of hell to get there. The town
of Janos was a presidio on the frontier, midway
between Santa Rita copper mines and the city
of Chihuahua; he left his family there at a place
of safety and engaged in the business of trans-
porting the copper to Chihuahua.