Westward Expansion, 1800-1875

Arizona History Lecture #3Heidi J. Osselaer

Apache Manso(Tame Apache) settle along theSanta Cruz Riverstarting in 1793

Early Tucson

Tubac

Louisiana Purchase

The Santa Fe Trail: Independence, MO to Santa Fe, NM

John C Fremont and Kit Carson

William “Old Bill” Williams

Bill Williams National Wildlife Refuge

Bill Williams River

The Bill Williams Mountain Men

Manifest Destiny

“American Progress” by John Gast

Mormon Battalion March

Territory gained (in blue) during the Mexican American War

The Gadsen Purchase 1853

Mangas Coloradas

Geronimo

Charles Poston in Tubac

Tubac

Drawing of the Colorado River from Lorenzo Sitgreaves’s Expedition

Hadji Ali (Hi Jolly) and friend

Hi Jolly monument in Quartzsite, AZ

Butterfield Overland Stage Route

Mark Twain

One of the few remaining ruins of an overland stage station Fort Bowie, Arizona

Ft. Yuma 1860

Ehrenberg

Yuma Crossing

Ehrenberg’s Quartermaster Depot

“We had one war withMexico to take Arizona, and we should haveanother to make her take it back.” William Tecumseh Sherman

Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln

Battle of Picacho Peak, Spring 1862

Battle of Picacho Peak reenactment

Manuelito

The Long Walk of the Navajo

Bosque Redondo

Indian Reservations Map 1890

Cochise

Fort Bowie near Apache Pass

Fort Bowie, 1890

Ruins of cavalry

barracks at Ft. Bowie today

Mangas Coloradas

Camp Grant

Two of the twenty-three children capturedand enslaved during the Camp GrantMassacre.

Cochise stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains

Apacheria

San Carlos IndianReservation, 1874

GeronimoGoyahkla “one who yawns”

Geronimo and thelast band of freeNative Americans

Indian Agent John Clum with Apache scouts

Ft. Huachuca

Fort Huachuca

Buffalo Soldiers

General Nelson Miles and the surrender of Geronimo, 1886

Geronimo and other Apache prisoners on theirway to Florida

Lozen

Dahteste

Apache Reservations

O’odham Farmers

Questions for Consideration

• How did life change for the native people of Arizona after the arrival of Americans?

• What obstacles faced Americans who desired to develop Arizona’s economy?