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The Dragoon Mountains
- cont.
PHOTOGRAPHED
AT COUNCIL ROCKS, WEST
SIDE
OF THE DRAGOON MOUNTAINS. SOME VERY
STRIKING
ROCK ART EXISTS HERE, SOME OF IT
APACHE,
SOME OF IT PREHISTORIC (photo below).
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THIS
VIEW OF "ROCKFELLOW DOME" MARKS THE ENTRANCE
TO
THE EAST STRONGHOLD AREA. COCHISE AND HIS BAND
MADE
THIS THEIR HOME HERE IN THE "RESERVATION
YEARS",
1872-1876. MERCIFUULY, COCHISE DID NOT LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SEE HIS
RESERVATION DISSOLVED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
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SUNSET
GIVES A ROSEY BLUSH TO THE RUGGED
WESTERN
SLOPES OF THE DRAGOON MOUNTAINS.
MIDDLEMARCH
PASS, WHERE GENERAL HOWARD'S
PARTY
CROSSED FROM SULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY,
IS
TO THE EXTREME RIGHT OF THIS SHOT, JUST OUT OF VIEW.
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MILES
OF LUSH GRASSLANDS AND LIVE OAKS
STRETCH
OUT TOWARD THE SAN PEDRO VALLEY,
ALONG
ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE
DRAGOONS.
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