Bloody Meadow Massacre Camp Adjustable Candle Lantern

The Peralta family from Northern Mexico mined rich gold ore from the Mountains of Arizona, in the 1840s. In 1848, during one of their expeditions to bring gold back to Mexico, the miners and their crew were ambushed, cornered, and massacred by the Apache. Historically, the Apache had raided enemy tribes and each other for livestock, food, or captives.The source of friction with the spanish of Mexican territory was the slave traders who hunted down captives to serve as labor in the brutal silver mines of Chihuahua Mexico, the Apache, in turn raided Mexican towns and settlements, taking horses, firearms and captives. The prowess of the Apache in battle became legend. In 1837, the Mexican state of Chihuahua passed a law offering a bounty on Indian scalps. Indian men brought 100, Pesos Indian women brought 50 Pesos, and Indian children brought 25 Pesos. War between the Mexicans and the Apache was especially intense from 1831 into the 1850s. On March 5, 1858. Colonel José María Carrasco led 400 soldiers from the presidio at Arizpe, Sonora to roam across the northern reaches of Mexico to kill as many Apaches as possible. This video is dedicated to Jim "The Great" (1850 – c. 1897) Born Bow-os-loh in the Arizona Territory, Jim was a member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe. The treaty between the United States (U.S.) and Apache Indians with aboriginal territories in what is now Arizona was signed in Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, on 1 July 1852, May this peace, these lands and people last for all time. Amen