The Battle of Cieneguilla

Howdy and welcome back to Wild West Deep Dives. This week, we are going to be talking about the Battle of Cieneguilla. 

Along the trail between Santa Fe and Taos in the New Mexico Territory in 1854, Chief Chacon’s large contingent of Jicarilla (Hic-a-ria) Apaches engaged in a fierce battle against United States Dragoons under the command of Lieutenant John W. Davidson.

The Santa Fe Weekly Gazette would report… one of the severest battles that ever took place between American troops and Red Indians

Sources for this episode;

o   https://www.historynet.com/battle-cieneguilla-dragoons-vs-jicarilla-apaches/ (1)

o   The Battle of Cieneguilla, March 30, 1854 by John Pezzola, American Military University

o   https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/this-old-gun-u-s-model-1847-cavalry-musketoon/ (3)

o   https://www.nps.gov/fosc/learn/education/dragoon5.htm (4)

o   https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2612/jicarilla-apache-creation-story--origin-of-the-ani/ (5)

o   Campaigns Against the Jicarilla Apache, 1854, by Morris F. Taylor (6)

o   https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jicarilla-Apache (7)

o   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGbCkoXdn-4 (8)

§  Jicarilla Apache Creation Story

o   https://californiapioneer.com/mormon-battalion/u-s-army-dragoons/ (9)

o   https://tentribespartnership.org/tribes/jicarilla-apache-nation/ (10)

o   https://nfsl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17053coll2/id/337811 (11)

o   Final Report on the Battle of Cieneguilla by authors David M. Johnson, Chris Adams, Charles Hawk & Skip Keith Miller (12)

o   Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians by Morris E. Opler (13)