The papers in this collection include two subgroups: Records of
the Mescalero Apache Reservation and Related Source Documents. The records, in
the form of microfilms, photoprints, and photocopies, include reports, census
rolls, correspondence, photographs, muster rolls, and maps and plans from the
National Archives and the Smithsonian Institution. The related source
documents, in the form of a photocopied thesis as well as photocopies of
primary and secondary source materials, are from the Denver Federal Records
Center, the Arizona Historical Society, Eve Ball, Robert Mullin, other
libraries, books, and magazines
Collection Number:
MS 281
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
Biographical Note
Mr. Mehren, a historian, submitted his Master of Arts thesis on the
Mescalero Apache to the Department of History at the University of Arizona in
1969.
Scope and Content Note
The papers in this collection include two subgroups: Records of the
Mescalero Apache Reservation and Related Source Documents. The records, in the
form of microfilms, photoprints, and photocopies, include reports, census
rolls, correspondence, photographs, muster rolls, and maps and plans from the
National Archives and the Smithsonian Institution. The related source
documents, in the form of a photocopied thesis as well as photocopies of
primary and secondary source materials, are from the Denver Federal Records
Center, the Arizona Historical Society, Eve Ball, Robert Mullin, other
libraries, books, and magazines.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish
from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record,
the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The
user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the
University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
Godfroy, Frederick C.,
1828-1885
Corporate Name(s)
United States -- Bureau of Indian
Affairs -- Mescalero Agency
Geographic Name(s)
Fort Stanton (N.M.) -- History -- 19th
century
Lincoln County (N.M.) -- History -- 19th
century
Mescalero Indian Reservation (N.M.) -- History -- 19th
century
New Mexico -- History -- 19th century
Subject(s)
Apache Indians -- Government relations --
1869-1934
Indian agents -- New Mexico -- History
Indians of North America -- Government relations --
1869-1934
Lincoln County War, 1878
Mescalero Indians -- Government relations --
1869-1934
Contains information pertaining to the Mescalero Apache
Reservation. Included are photoprints concerning Mescalero Apache Agency
buildings, the 1877 census roll, a report of sale of unserviceable public
property, Mescalero reservation trespassers, reduction of, survey, and
improvements of the Mescalero Apache reservation, and records concerning
finances accounts. Also contains reports and testimony in the matter of the
examination of charges against F.C. Godfroy. Included is a copy of a report of
a scout of Captain Fechit. Please be advised that some of the material in this
series may also be found in the Microfilm series.
box
folder
1
1
Buildings (special case no.l5).
, 1879-1880
1
2
Census roll.
, 1877
1
3-5
Mescalero Apache Reservation - reduction, survey,
improvements, etc. (special case no. 108).
, 1865-1877
1
6
Mescalero Apache Reservation trespassers (special case
no. 30).
, 1880-1881
1
7
Miscellaneous records concerning finances accounts
material.
, 1879-1880
1
8-9
Report and testimony : In the matter of the examination
of charges against F.C. Godfroy By E.C. Watkins.
, 1878
box
folder
2
1
Report and testimony : In the matter of the examination
of charges against F.C. Godfroy By E.C. Watkins.
, 1878
2
2
Report of sale of unserviceable public property by F.C.
Godfroy.
, 1877
2
3
Report of scout of Captain Fechit, Fort Stanton, N.M.
, 1875
Includes selected copies of letters written by agents of the
Mescaleros and a copy of a letter by Major Price relative to the capture and
release of a party of Indians. Please be advised that some of the material
found in this series may also be found in the Microfilm series.
box
folder
2
4
Copies of letters written by agents of the Mescaleros.
Selections.
, 1849-1904
2
5
United States. Dept. of Interior - Copy of a letter by
Major Price and letters relating to the capture and release of a party of
Indians.
, No
Date
Contains six 8" X 10" photographs of Fort Stanton, New Mexico c.
1883-1885, fourteen 8" X 10" and ten 5" X 8" or smaller photographs of
Mescalero Apaches and the Mescalero Reservation, and seven 5" X 7" negatives
pertaining to the Mescalero Reservation.
Contains 35 mm film copies of primary source material from the
National Archives, Washington, D.C. as listed below. Please note that some of
the material on the film is duplicated in the Documents and Correspondence
series above.
box
2
Roll 8585: 40 feet.
, No
Date
Includes:
Record Group 48, Records of the Office of the Secretary of
the Interior and Record Group 75, Records of the B.I.A. Includes selected
documents relating to the Mescalero Indian Agency.
Record Group 48, Records of the Office of the Secretary of
the Interior, Appointments Division. Includes selected documents relating to
Andrew Jackson Curtis.
Record Group 48, Records of the Office of the Secretary of
the Interior, Appointments Division. Includes selected documents relating to
Samuel B. Bushnell, Williamson D. Crothers, Frederick C. Godfroy, and Samuel A.
Russell.
Record Group 75, Records of the B.I.A. Includes
miscellaneous records covering finances accounts material for the Mescalero
Indian Agency, 1879-1880, special case 15: Mescalero Apache Agency Buildings,
special case 30: trespassers on the Mescalero Reservation, and special case
108: reduction of the Mescalero Apache Reservation.
2
Roll 11321: 34 feet - Records of the B.I.A.
, No
Date
Includes:
Record Group 75. Includes selected documents relating to
the Mescalero Indian Reservation, namely Inspector E.C. Watkins' report on the
Mescalero reservation and field notes of surveys of the Mescalero Apache
Reservation.
2
Roll 11668: 10 feet.
, No
Date
Includes:
Record Group 94, Records of the Adjutant General's Office.
Includes selected documents relating to Sutlers.
Contains muster rolls for Companies A, C, D, E, G, and K for
August, October, and December 1873 as listed below. These documents are
separately foldered at the end of the collection.
Contains photographic copies of 30 maps and plans from the
National Archives, Washington, D.C., of the Mescalero Reservation at Fort
Stanton, New Mexico. Includes maps and plans of such items as pastures, the
Lincoln National Forest, surveys of the existing and proposed reservation, the
country near Fort Stanton, and the buildings of Fort Stanton. These documents
are separately foldered at the end of the collection.
Contains a photocopy of the Master of Arts thesis of Cecil Byron
Trammell, Norman, Oklahoma, 1938, entitled "Mescalero Indian Relations in New
Mexico, 1865-1885."
box
folder
2
13
Thesis: Mescalero Indian Relations in New Mexico,
1865-1885, by Cecil Byron Trammell. 119 pages.
, 1938
Contains approximately 273 photocopied pages of various primary
and secondary sources gathered from the Denver Federal Records Center, the
National Archives, Eve Ball, other theses, books, and magazines.
