Dry River: Stories of Life, Death, and Redemption on the Santa Cruz

Index

Index Acuña, Father Cruz, 73 Agua Linda Ranch/Farm, 135, 137–138, 140, 254 Aguilar, Don Francisco Alejandro , 82 Alvord, Burt, 32 Amado, Manuel H., 142, 253 Amado (Amadoville), 135, 140, 142, 155 amphibian species: barking frog, 108, 134; Couch’s spadefoot, 25, 110, 187, 244–245; Great Plains toad, 188; lowland leopard frog, 88–89, 108, 187–188; Sinaloan narrowmouthed toad, 89, 176, 186, 188, 193; Sonoran desert toad, 141, 188; Sonoran green toad, 187; Sonoran tiger salamander , 24–26; Tarahumara frog, 134 Antonio de Arriquibar, Father Pedro, 204 Anza, Captain Juan Bautista de, 68, 250–251; expedition of, 86, 93–97, 113, 121–122, 125, 144–145, 150; role in Jesuit expulsion, 115–116 Anza, Juan Bautista de (senior), 95–96 Anza Trail: 85, 90, 139; authorized by Congress, 94; at Canoa Ranch, 150–151; at Rio Rico, 93–94, 96–98; at Tubac, 127, 133, 135; at Tumacacori, 103 Apache Indians: 29, 67–68, 84, 91, 95, 115, 118–119, 122–123, 130, 158, 250–252; attacks by, 172, 201, 208; captives of, 44, 49–52; Chiricahua , 50, 99–101; Cibicue, 51; massacres, 99–101, 146; Tonto, 51; White Mountain, 51. See also names of individual Apache leaders Arivaca Cienega, 89 Arizona Game and Fish Dept., 25–26, 134 Arizona School for the Deaf and the Blind, 215 Arizona State Parks, 35 Arizona Water Settlements Act, 166 Arizpe, Sonora, 95, 125, 251 Avila, Sergio, 60, 109 Babb, Randy, 134–135 Baboquivari Mountains, 148 Bac. See San Xavier del Bac 262 index Barrera, Father, 55 Bartlett, John Russell, 39, 252; at Calabasas, 82, 86; with Inez Gonzales, 43–44; at San Xavier, enters San Rafael Valley , 21–22; 170; at Tubac, 127, 133, 135; at Tucson, 200 Bascom, First Sergeant George Nicholas, 50 Basin and Range Province, 14–15, 46 Battle of Picacho Pass, 136, 252 Belderrain, Captain Juan Tomás de, 68, 71, 95, 122–123, 171, 250 Belderrain, Father Juan Bautista de, 170–172, 250–251 Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 89 Bernabé, Juan Crisóstomo Gil de, 116 Bezerra Nieto, Antonio, 95 Bezerra Nieto, Maria Rosa, 68, 95 bird species: Abert’s towhee, 176, 217; ash-throated flycatcher, 179; Bell’s vireo, 187, 225, 238; Bewick’s wren, 235; black-bellied whistling-duck, 128; black-crowned night heron, 187; black hawk, 86, 89; black-necked stilt, 235; black-tailed gnatcatcher, 235; blue grosbeak, 87; broadbilled hummingbird, 149; Cooper’s hawk, 235; eared quetzal, 87, 223; elegant trogon, 62, 108, 222, 226; flame-colored tanager, 149; Gambel’s quail, 179, 217; Gila woodpecker, 132; gray hawk, 47, 86, 89, 94, 128, 139, 141, 193, 221; great blue heron, 47, 90, 223; greater roadrunner, 179; ladder-backed woodpecker, 120; LeConte’s sparrow, 225; lesser goldfinch, 149, 184, 215, 226; lesser nighthawk, 232–233; Lucy’s warbler, 87, 225–226; Mexican jay, 149; painted redstart, 149; phainopepla , 183; pine siskin, 149; red-tailed hawk, 179, 217, 226; red-winged blackbird, 133; roseate spoonbill, 128; rose-throated becard, 62, 108; rough-winged swallow, 193, 226; rufous-capped warbler, 108; rufous hummingbird , 149; short-eared owl, 226; short-tailed hawk, 223; swallow-tailed kite, 222; tropical kingbird, 128; white-faced ibis, 128; yellowbilled cuckoo, 128, 225, 239; yellow-breasted chat, 87, 187; yellow warbler, 225; zonetailed hawk, 128 Bissontz, Michael, 86–89 Bojórquez, Juan and María, 235 Bolton, Herbert E., 38, 72 Bourke, John Gregory, 51 Bowman, Wirt, 131 Bravo, Defina, 210 Brevoort, Elias C., 136–137, 252 Briggs, Mark, 169 Brocius, Curly Bill, 32 Brown, James Cabell, 84 Brown, James Kilroy, 157–158, 252 index 263 Brownell, Elizabeth, 99 Buehman, Henry, 176 Burnett, Jim, 32–34, 253 Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez, 37, 249 Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, 17 Caborca, Sonora, 72 Calabasas, 74, 90, 93–94, 99, 114, 117, 120, 146, 250, 252; history of, 81–85; ruins of, 78–80 Calabazas Land and Mining Company, 84 Cameron, Brewster, 28 Cameron, Colin, 27–31, 36, 253 Camino del Cerro, 226–227 Camino del Diablo, El, the Devil’s Highway, 72 Camino del Oeste Wash, 217–218 Campos, Father Joseph Agustín de, 72–73, 123 Cañada del Oro Wash, 5, 164, 232 Canelo Pass, 11, 22 Cañez, Carmen, 100 Canoa Ranch, 161, 252–254; history of, 144–148, 150–151; as Pima County Park, 151–154 Carleton, Colonel James H., 136 Carranza, Andrés Dorantes de, 37 Casanega, Thomas, 99 Central...