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Show 'II Gree-r' A tfJW K.naol'b-.taaUl •• al a.ttlecl. at "Greers in 1879 on the tork .. L1 t tl ot·. baDi· and ript ,the •. c:bloracio,". westward. or not tar from Mt. Baldy. {The confluence of the right. and left han the little Colorado was in. the vicinity or torks Greer dl.d not receive its present name until 1896. A saw-mill installed there; and in 1898 a postorrice. was Nutrloso . . . springemlle1. o Alpine TratV'elling with his automobile toda7, one crosses the "Mogollon 8 miles above Nutrioso· and in a few minutes is in With its Alpine. exposure at the' heads of the its location south of the Blue River, '8 connuent of the Gil&; predominating Mt. Escudilla, forest=coTered to; its summit; and with a more open countrY', Alpine is more fitted to agriculture than Nutrioso, despite its eletion---8JOOO ft. or more. Its range or crops 1s of 'eours-e narrow; but· in case of. an oat crop failure, it Rim" some 6 or 80utheriy . is sa id to be more likely than climatic conditions tho result of a grasshopper plague" • proximity to the headwaters of the San which the Blue emptied tetex-, before 'eOD!lu8Dce Framcisco River, into with the Gila, the vicinity 7 haw.· been- known as "Frisco" during A Mr. Anderson Blah settled the fifs't ·years of· its· Mormon' bistol'7. there. in 1876--the first year. ot MGrmon' occupation·. or the lower Little golorado-' rall.eYi and from.him came the designation "lUsh before the name ttAlpine", be«ause of ats location in . Perhaps because·ot its -; Valley" the pine forest, was . assumed. The tirst Mormons at lapine were probably Fred Hamblin and Abraham yr.lllsOr, who are said to ha ve arri ved there Mar. 27, 1879. was Hamblin, a brother of the Leatherstocking of the $outhwest", was a hear-fighter. not· only a fanner and perhaps a cowman; but he events ot his lit.e was a fight most the exciting of' one Perhaps HqmbUn \fa'S' over with a grizzlY" bear in the vicinity of, Alpine. 6 ft.; but the bear, on his hind teet tor. jighting was even taller these' parts". it is said, one .of the bugest' grizz17s ever seeD:· "in ve inefreeti had which:. bis off proved knocktld· <k. gUll, With the eta bastt.a the: down· against:·the.·bmte<,Alamblln ramm.ed the ·gun-barre_. the liear embattled the of 'pioneer, blows·· From·.the··fi.ailing throat A neigh :the fight. lost. a number:·ot. -his- teeth;.: and tina 117· gave up. marks and. teeth bor, killed the animal. shortly atter---the.missing (Well, I know on the 'gun' furnishing detini.te identification one of. them, five bullets, wera, fired In some t.oo. (, :6t.heDl,.-· advancing" to fight; but tell. "dead" into the 'tody orMore than tree from the ngun-pumpertt. on the opposite' side or a fallen is truth of that old axiom, "The once in my lifetime,; ha 1'8 I thought ). stranger than fiction". . - . . •.. .. ... .ng.riZZl7"8to" .. Luna. New Mexico and 15 miles eastward of npine, Arizona, Luna, New Mexico, a tout, mucb ele9.ltion has the New Mexico boundar,y, perhaps 6 miles beyond thousands of feet. Like so manr·other places some lower than Alpine, especially in in the Little eolorado drainage area, have mentioned seem to hale had Mor and Pleasanton, New Mexico upper portion Luna and perhaps from the Little COlorabout the srume time, mon settlers we ado countJ7. t |
