Apache Campaigns - Fort Huachuca - U.S. Army

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land sufficient for farming and grazing for many an emigrant.
The account continues—
Of Camp Huachuca and vicinity, it is reported that the country is rapidly settling up for
miles around the point where the troops are stationed. The military have a garden down at
old Camp Wallen where they produce vegetables for the camp. Everything grows not only
very large, but with wonderful rapidity, and is unexcelled in delicacy of flavor by similar
productions elsewhere. Beets and carrots root down over two feet, and the corn grows so
high there that it is not unusual to find stalks where the ears are from six to seven feet from the
ground. The surrounding mountains are full of mineral. Several very rich discoveries have
just been made, both in the Huachuca and Mule mountains. One lead shows over seventy
percent copper, and is very rich in silver. There are traces of several old mines which have
been worked, but prospectors are taking hold of new discoveries. Here nature has placed side
by side one of the richest valleys and mineral producing belts in the Territory, so that the
miner and farmer may walk hand in hand. 20
The first train between Tucson and Nogales, probably by way of Patagonia, in 1881. Photo
courtesy: Southern Pacific Company, San Francisco, California.
Apache Campaigns: Indian Scouts at Camp Huachuca
Apache Scout companies were made up of twenty-five Indians with a white officer in
command and often direction was given by a civilian chief of scouts. In 1877 and 1878 there
were as many as 600 Indian Scouts in the U.S. Army. By the time of the 1885-6 Geronimo
campaigns, that number had dropped to 200.
First Lieutenant Augustin Gabriel Tassin 21 was a commander of Indian Scouts at Hua-
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