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Show 124 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY water near the surface, and he accordingly scooped out a little hollow into which, indeed the water began to collect. Meanwhile some stealthy Comanches, whom Smith had not observed, were stealing upon him and while he was in the act of stooping down to drink, mortally wounded him with several arrows. He rose and displayed his undaunted spirit in resisting his savage foes to the last, and killed two of them before he expired. The spot where he fell was never precisely known and no grave protects the earthly remains of this Christian and knightly adventurer. A sadder fate or a more heroic victim the parched wastes of the desert never knew.’ 89 ve hea dated Near the place known as Rock Creek, on the Dry Cimarron route, occurred shortly after the Mexican War, the massacre of the White party by Jicarilla Apaches. Dr. White was a t of. ted ted ed MASSACRE OF DR. WHITE'S PARTY at ¥) ~r. ~ Pe ‘i = ah & Aubrey. ro * a a Med: ee ee a ee ad .* boxa the commere of themousiaaa a feaeg Ee ae nen er went to St. Louis in 1823. He traveled fo. hoa eo EE ee Rae ST Ss 2 B- Os Srt. a eee bd nd e Py cd ti | ale se ts De et ee oe oe | eee STL 89 Jedediah Peta ee 7? ‘ : | = mse berger, an American whose name is not known, a Mexican, and 4 negro servant. There is a difference of opinion as to the manner of attack, but Major John Greiner, then Indian Agent at Santa Fé, stated that Chacow, a Jicarilla chief, had told him that while the S. Smi to the Mississippi Paciie provinces to the Mexican - PRD all fee and i? i tous In he ee ee SE Pe ee ee Pe eyar Set ae oy . : at this place, and Dr. White and his family started on ahead. His party consisted of himself, wife and child, a German named Law- Lg a merchant of Santa Fé and was on his return to New Mexico from the states with his family, in company with the train of F. X. All danger was considered at an end when they arrived wlae a Indians, Eee Ee Doe Sa ho — J * a J r 4 Ne * Salad oe bee ae ae Par ey Le. ae a rede 5 8-- & @ nl eer eee Pe ee 7 a * &.4-@4.2 rs 7% eh dtl Paradet weet ’ . Va Ce ete ok ae ed oe — ae — 2 rs eae 1826 he and grizzly became in 1831 and bears, senior from partner embarked Be ee cia ae cog in the Santa Fé "hae expedition. ee ta sip Cae doe oe a ee “Yife in Sublette the first , Mr. William Waldo, Ms Smith } ‘*He was a bold, outspoke - N No. 1 35, Missouri Historical Society, says of n » ;professing and consistent Christian, the first 40 n trappers and hunters. No early Rocky Mountai ubted the sincerity of his piety. He had becom? a4 communica nt of the Meth odist church before leaving his home oe! Pe never failed to occupy a place in the church in New Yor of his a all objects connected with religion which he pr fessed and towed. Beater ae being an to adventur and 44 ° an hero, a trader traprepared Christian, he was himself inelined literary er fora! and had geograph Pacific, r shit and Scene : >: : . ; oe Representative New Mexicans of . the American : ) i Occupation ae Period : Rocky a. Mountain oa oe region extending publication. ’’ perhaps ne 1. Don Pedro Perea. José Chaves. 4. Rev. 2. Don Antonio Gallegos. 6. Antonio José Don José Martinez. Hilario 3. ( ol. Manuel Luna. Nazario 5. Don Gonzales A. ~ | . de cata |