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Wagon Mound massacre

Wagon Mound massacre
Part of the Apache Wars and Jicarilla War
The Wagon Mound butte, located in New Mexico.
LocationWagon Mound, New Mexico Territory
DateMay 7, 1850
TargetA wagon carrying mail on the Santa Fe Trail.
Deaths10 American mail carriers killed
Perpetrators100 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

  1. ^ "Wagon Mound Massacre, New Mexico – Legends of America". www.legendsofamerica.com. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  2. ^ "Ten Americans Killed At Wagon Mound, New Mexico Territory!". Fiction and Fact From Old New Mexico. 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2024-10-22.


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