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The Wickenburg Massacre was the November 5, 1871, murder of six stagecoach passengers en route westbound from
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Massacre

Around mid-morning, about six miles from Wickenburg, the stagecoach was attacked by 15
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warriors, who were sometimes mistakenly called Apache-Mohaves, from the Date Creek Reservation. Six men, including the driver, were shot and killed. Among them was
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working as a correspondent for '' Appleton's Journal'' and assigned to cover a cartographic expedition led by Lieutenant George Wheeler. One male passenger, William Kruger, and the only female passenger, Mollie Sheppard, managed to escape. According to Kruger, Sheppard eventually died of the wounds she received. Memorial plaques have been installed near the site several times, including in 1937 by the Arizona Highway Department and in 1948 and 1988 by the Wickenburg Saddle Club. The Wickenburg Massacre was featured on a April 12, 1996, episode of ''Unsolved Mysteries''.


See also

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List of massacres in Arizona This is a partial list of massacres in the United States; death tolls may be approximate. :*For single-perpetrator events and shooting sprees, see List of rampage killers in the United States, Mass shootings in the United States, :Spree shoot ...


References


Further reading

* * Dan L. Thrapp: ''Al Sieber: Chief of Scouts''. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1964, pp. 87–105
Another account of the massacre
from University of Arizona * Bill W. Smith. ''A Collection of Newspaper Articles, Letters, and Reports, Regarding the Wickenburg Massacre and Subsequent Camp Date Creek Incident''. Phoenix: Privately Published, 1989. 68 pp. ,


External links

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