Apache Raid on the Hurlburt Ranch, 1869
Milby at the San Vicente Cienega, now Silver City [2]. During August 1869, while cultivating his cornfield at what is now the junction of Broadway and Main, he heard his wife shriek and looked toward his cabin to behold a dozen or more Apaches between him and his rifle [2][1]. He raced nine miles to the Langston mine near Pinos Altos and gave the alarm [1]. The next day, a party of mountaineers found his wife and child murdered and mutilated; it was ascertained that his wife had hidden his rifle in the chimney and died pierced by a dozen arrows [1].
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- cabin beheld a dozen or more Apaches, and… (1890)cabin beheld a dozen or more Apaches, and found to his utter amazement and dismay that the Indians were between him and his rifle. A moment later the screams had ceased and being discovered by the Indians the…
- The deceased was a native of New Hamp-… (1890)The deceased was a native of New Hamp- shire and in early life emigrated to Missouri. At the outbreak of the civil war, when “Home Guard” organizations were springing up in every township, Mr. Hurlburt was the …