After gaining experience as a teamster along the Santa Fe Trail and in Mexico, Carson signed on with a party of forty men, led by Ewing Young which in August, 1829 went into Apache country along the Gila River.

Of the 300, 000, approximately half arrived by sea and half came from the east overland on the California Trail and the Gila River trail.

For the next six weeks, Lt. Carson guided Kearny and the 100 dragoons west along the Gila River over rugged terrain, arriving at the Colorado River on November 25.

By the end of the second day, December 7, the Americans were nearly out of food and water, low on ammunition and weak from the journey along the Gila River.

** Chokonen ( lived west of Safford, Arizona, along the upper reaches of the Gila River, along the San Francisco River in the north to the Mogollon Mountains in New Mexico in the east and the San Simon Valley to the southwest, northeastern local group )

** Animas ( lived south of the Rio Gila, and west of the San Simon Valley in the Peloncillo Mountains along the Arizona-New Mexico border south to the Guadalupe Canyon and eastward in the Animas Valley and Animas Mountains in SW New Mexico, southern local group )

*** Copper Mines ( lived southwest of the Gila River, centered around the Santa Lucia Springs in the Little Burro and Big Burro Mountains, controlled the Pinos Altos Mountains, Pyramid Mountains and the vicinity of Santa Rita del Cobre along the Mimbres River in the east-hence called Copper Mine Apaches, western local group )

The expedition took a southern route along the Rio Altar ( Sonora y Sinaloa, New Spain ) then paralleled the modern Mexico / California border and crossed the Colorado River at its confluence with the Gila River.

The Tohono O ' odham share linguistic and cultural roots with the closely related Akimel O ' odham ( People of the River ), whose lands lie just south of Phoenix, along the lower Gila River.

Young is located at ( 34. 111688 ,-110. 929208 ), along Arizona State Route 288 ( which becomes Gila County 512 to the north ).

Duncan and the surrounding area along the Gila River is world-renowned for Native American artifacts such as arrow heads, pottery, burial sites, cave paintings and other remnants of the Anasazi and other pre-historic cultures.

When Father Eusebio Francisco Kino visited in 1699, the older site along fertile banks of the Gila River had been abandoned by another early tribe called the Opas, who instead used the river to irrigate their crops at a nearby rancheria.

The town sits near the Gila River in the Copper Basin area along with its sister cities, Hayden and Winkelman.

* Kit Carson, 1829 went into Apache country along the Gila River.

From east to west, the border consisted of the Rio Grande northwest from its mouth to the point Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico ( roughly 32 degrees north ), as shown in the Disturnell map, then due west from this point to the 110th meridian west, then north along the 110th Meridian to the Gila River and down the river to its mouth.

Large scale settlement of the lower basin by whites began in the mid-to-late 1800s, with steamboats providing transportation and trade along the Colorado and Gila Rivers.

It is made up of seven districts along the Gila River and its largest communities are Sacaton, Komatke, Santan, and Blackwater.

Between the 7th and 14th centuries, they also built and maintained extensive irrigation networks along the lower Salt and middle Gila rivers that rivaled the complexity of those used in the ancient Near East, Egypt, and China.

After 1722, Spanish documents start to distinguish between these different groups, in which case Apaches de Gila refers to the Western Apache living along the Gila River ( and thus synonymous with Coyotero ).

After the meat was smoked into jerky around November, a migration from the farm sites along the stream banks in the mountains to winter camps in the Salt, Black, Gila river and even the Colorado River valleys.

He divided his forces into four commands: one, under Col. Sterling Price, appointed military governor, was to occupy and maintain order in New Mexico with his approximately 800 men ; a second group under Col. Alexander William Doniphan, with a little over 800 men was ordered to capture El Paso, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico and then join up with General John E. Wool ; the third command of about 300 dragoons mounted on mules, he led under his command to California along the Gila River trail.

They had to come out of the Gila River trail and confront the Mexican forces, or risk perishing in the desert.

* 216. 97 MHz at Gila River, Arizona ()

Overhead imagery ( see coordinates given above ) of the Gila River and Jordan Lake sites suggests that the original design called for antennas of twice the present length with, presumably, greater radiated power.

* Bedonkohe ( Bi-dan-ku-‘ In Front of the End People ’, Bi-da-a-naka-enda-‘ Standing in front of the enemy ’, often called Mogollon, Gila Apaches, Northeastern Chiricahua, lived in the Mogollon Mountains and Tularosa Mountains between the San Francisco River in the West and the Gila River to the southeast in west New Mexico )

** Gila River War Relocation Center

In 1960, the Army Corps of Engineers completed construction of the Painted Rock Dam on the Gila River.

Among these may be mentioned: the Mazatzal Mountain region in Gila and Maricopa Counties, Arizona ; Red Feather Lakes, near Ft Collins, Colorado ; Amethyst Mountain, Texas ; Yellowstone National Park ; Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; Haywood County, North Carolina ; Deer Hill and Stow, Maine and in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario in Canada.

The United States acquired the southwestern boot heel of the state and southern Arizona below the Gila river in the mostly desert Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which was related to the construction by the US of a transcontinental railroad.

Location: San Carlos Indian Reservation, Gila Co., Arizona, USA.

* The Last of the Oso Si-Papu – about a giant creature resembling a bear with skin like a Gila monster roaming Arizona

Gila County is a county in the central part of the U. S. state of Arizona.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Gila County, Arizona

hr: Gila, okrug ( Arizona )

ro: Comitatul Gila, Arizona

vi: Quận Gila, Arizona

war: Condado han Gila, Arizona

* Gila County, Arizona — northwest

The original county consisted of all of Arizona Territory east of longitude 113 ° 20 ' and south of the Gila River.

Later, he moved to Arizona and was elected sheriff of Globe, Gila County, Arizona.

Canyon Day ( Western Apache Yangongai ) is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Gila County, Arizona, United States.

Category: Census-designated places in Gila County, Arizona

Central Heights-Midland City is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Gila County, Arizona, United States.

Category: Census-designated places in Gila County, Arizona

Claypool () is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Gila County, Arizona, United States.

Category: Census-designated places in Gila County, Arizona

Gisela is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Gila County, Arizona, United States.