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Tag: Alonzo Ickis

Tracking Alonzo

September 12, 2014 Megan Kate Nelson 5 Comments

On a chilly day in December 1861, an Iowa farmer and Colorado gold miner named Alonzo Ferdinand Ickis put on…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: 2nd Colorado Infantry, Acequias, Alonzo Ickis, Colorado Territory, Culebra Range, Fort Marcy, Huerfano River, La Veta Pass, New Mexico Territory, Raton Pass, Rio Grande, Santa Fe, Taos

Lighting out for the Territories

August 18, 2014 Megan Kate Nelson 19 Comments

Why do so few historians talk about the American Civil War in the West? And by “the West” I don’t…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Alonzo Ickis, Apache Canyon, Arizona Territory, California Column, Colorado Territory, Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory, Sibley Brigade, Texas, Valverde
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