Wagon Mound massacre
| Wagon Mound massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Apache Wars and Jicarilla War | |
 The Wagon Mound butte, located in New Mexico. | |
| Location | Wagon Mound, New Mexico Territory |
| Date | May 7, 1850 |
| Target | A wagon carrying mail on the Santa Fe Trail. |
| Deaths | 10 American mail carriers killed |
| Perpetrators | 100 Apache and Ute warriors led by White Wolf |
The Wagon Mound massacre was an attack on a US Postal Service ox-wagon carried out on May 7, 1850 by a band of Jicarilla Apache and Mouache Ute Indians on the Cimmaron Cutoff route of the Santa Fe Trail, near Wagon Mound, New Mexico.[1] The bodies of the 10 Americans killed in the attack were found in Santa Clara Springs near Wagon Mound by travelers on May 19, 1850, about a week after the attack.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Wagon Mound Massacre, New Mexico – Legends of America". www.legendsofamerica.com. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
- ^ "Ten Americans Killed At Wagon Mound, New Mexico Territory!". Fiction and Fact From Old New Mexico. 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
Categories:
- Massacres of the Apache Wars
- Massacres in 1850
- 1850 murders in the United States
- May 1850 events
- Attacks on road transport
- Road incidents in the United States
- Massacres by Native Americans
- Violence and postal systems
- Postal history of the United States
- History of Mora County, New Mexico
- Santa Fe Trail
- 1850 in New Mexico Territory