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Grave of Mexican's (sic) killed near Resting springs whose deaths were promptly avenged by Kit Carson. October 1967. (This reference is to the massacre of the Hernandez couple and their caravan leader in 1844, and the consequent revenge for the raid taken by Kit Carson and Alex Godey, guides for Fremont in 1844. It is not known if the site pictured is indeed the grave of the murdered New Mexicans), October 1967

Level of Description
File
Date
October 1967
Container
Box 01, folder Old Spanish Trail photograph packet 1item 32
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Collection Number: MS-00342
Collection Name: Sherwin "Scoop" Garside Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01
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