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    Fort Yuma was a fort in California located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was Established in 1848. It served as a...
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    (Quechan: Kwatsáan 'those who descended'), or Yuma, are a Native American tribe who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation on the lower Colorado River...
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    The Fort Yuma Indian Reservation is a part of the traditional lands of the Quechan people. Established in 1884 from the former Fort Yuma, the reservation...
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    Yuma goes back to 1850, when Fort Yuma was constructed on a hill overlooking the important Yuma crossing of the Colorado River. Soldiers at Fort Yuma...
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  • Fort Yuma Gold (Italian: Per pochi dollari ancora, lit. 'For a Few Extra Dollars') is a 1966 Italian/Spanish/French international co-production Spaghetti...
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    The Yuma War was the name given to a series of United States military operations conducted in southern California and what is today southwestern Arizona...
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  • Ground, Arizona (CDP) Yuma Territorial Prison Fort Yuma, California Yuma County, Colorado Yuma, Colorado Yuma, Kansas Yuma, Kentucky Yuma, Michigan, in Springville...
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    was breveted an honorary colonel and buried with military honors in the Fort Yuma cemetery. Her story became part of American popular culture. Bowman is...
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  • Fort Yuma is a 1955 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Peter Graves, Joan Vohs, John Hudson and Joan Taylor. When word reaches...
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    was the second American military post established on the river after Fort Yuma. Eventually advantages in weaponry and tactics brought the Mohave and...
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    Yuma is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 95,548 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 census...
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    Yuma War, the Quechan laid siege on Fort Yuma in 1851, and forced the American garrison there to abandon the fort. The Americans returned to the area...
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    Arizona side include the Yuma Quartermaster Depot and Yuma Territorial Prison. Features on the California Side include Fort Yuma, which protected the area...
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    established in 1849. Fort Yuma was established to protect the southern emigrant travel route to California and to attempt control of the warlike Yuma Indians in...
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    2020 census, its population was 203,881. The county seat is Yuma. Yuma County includes the Yuma, Arizona Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county borders...
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    Metropolitan Area. North of Interstate 8 and bordering Yuma, Arizona, the town is partly in the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation. The Colorado River marks the town's...
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    mission was later part of Fort Yuma. Fort Yuma Spanish missions in California Official website Missions of the Colorado River Yuma Territorial Prison Park...
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    mentions his plan to send an advance party of seven companies from Fort Yuma to reoccupy Fort Mojave and reestablish the ferry there. Carleton then intended...
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  • Fort Yuma, Cal. Marcy (1859) List of Itineraries: XV.—From Fort Yuma to San Diego, California. Marcy (1859) List of Itineraries: XXI.—From Fort Yuma to...
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    8 in the far southeast of the state, just west of Yuma, Arizona. The Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation is located nearby. During World...
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    James A. White from Fort Yuma's acting commander, Lt. A. A. Winder. On December 31, 1857, several days before Ives's arrival at Fort Yuma, Johnson's party...
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    the Pacific Wagon Road, a military road being built between El Paso and Fort Yuma, a wagon road was built from Mesilla westward to Cooke's Spring, saving...
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    Steamboats of the Colorado River (category History of Yuma County, Arizona)
    steamboats on the Colorado River came as the result of the founding of Fort Yuma during the Yuma War. Supplies had to be shipped over long distance from San Francisco...
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    further west and 80 miles from the California border in the direction of Fort Yuma). After a Confederate force of about 120 cavalrymen arrived at Tucson...
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    He was employed by the Overland Mail Company as a financial agent at Fort Yuma, California, in May 1860. At the closing of the line, on the Southern...
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  • Ferry was a major river ferry at the Yuma Crossing of the Colorado River in the 1850s until 1862, 1 mile below Fort Yuma. Long a crossing point on the river...
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    War. William "Frog" Edwards, only recently released from detention at Fort Yuma, ambushed a party of unarmed Union soldiers when they stopped at La Paz...
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  • need of refurbishment. Films partially made at the set: Fort Yuma (1955) Tomahawk Trail (1957) Fort Dobbs (1958) Sergeants 3 (1962) Daniel Boone TV series...
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    Night of the Hunter Ben Harper 1955 The Naked Street Joe McFarland 1955 Fort Yuma Lt. Ben Keegan 1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell Capt. Bob Elliott...
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    reservations in the U.S. state of Arizona. Indigenous peoples of Arizona Fort Apache Indian Reservation List of federally recognized tribes in Arizona...
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