page_520 < previous page page_520 next page > Page 520 Mexico. He then became well acquainted with the Navajos and became their agent in 1853, establishing his headquarters at Fort Defiance. Soon after, he married a daughter of a Navajo leader, though he apparently had never divorced his first wife. The Navajos liked, trusted, and respected him. Some of his offspring became important leaders among the Navajos. Thrapp, Encyclopedia, IV (Supplement), 144-45. 27. Henry Lane Kendrick, born in New Hampshire about 1811, graduated sixteenth in a class of fifty-six from the U.S. Military Academy in 1835. He fought with distinction in the Mexican War, earning a brevet, and became commander of Fort Defiance in 1852. He remained until 1857, when he returned to the academy as a professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology. He retired in 1880 and died in New York City in 1891. Altshuler, Cavalry Yellow and Infantry Blue, 189. 28. McNitt, Navajo Wars, 286-87. 29. NA, RG393, "Corrales testimony." 30. NA, RG393, M1120, R5, Kendrick to Nichols, November 26, 1856. 31. Schroeder, Apache Indian Series, IV, 169-70; Steck Papers, Steck to Meriwether, December 17, 1856. 32. NA, RG393, M1120, R5, Kendrick to Van Horne, November 22, 1856; Kendrick to Nichols, November 26, 1856. 33. NA, RG75, T21, R26, Meriwether to Steck, November 28, 1856; Steck Papers, Meriwether to Steck, November 28, 1856. 34. Steck Papers, Steck to Meriwether, December 7, 1856; NA, RG217, Steck accounts no. 6967. 35. Steck Papers, Steck to Meriwether, December 17, 1856. 36. NA, RG393, M1120, R5, Claiborne to Nichols, December 18, 1856. 37. Steck Papers, Steck to Meriwether, January 3, 1857; NA, RG393, M1120, R6, Randall to Roberts, December 4, 1856. 38. Quite possibly this man may have been Ulzana (1821-1909), a noted Chokonen warrior of the mid-1880s who led a famous raid in November 1885 into Arizona from Mexico. Ulzana was a brother of Chihuahua, a Chokonen local group leader during Cochise's lifetime whose territory was near Safford and Duncan. Sweeney, Cochise, 368-69, 459-60; Griswold, "Ft. Sill Apaches," 66. For an in-depth account of Ulzana's legendary raid in late 1885, see Daniel D. Aranda, "JosanieApache Warrior," True West, May-June, 1976, 38-39, 62-64. 39. Steck Papers, Steck to Meriwether, January 3, 1857. 40. McNitt, Navajo Wars, 292-95. 41. NA, RG393, Letters Sent, Ninth Military Dept., Dept. of New Mexico, M1072 (hereafter cited as NA, RG393, M1072, with roll number), R2, Bonneville to Thomas, January 31, 1857. 42. Juarez Archives, R20, Abiores to Chief Politician, District of E1 Paso, January 13, 1857; NA, RG75, M234, R546, Meriwether to Many-penny, January 27, 1857; Thrapp, Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches, 52-53. Â < previous page page_520 next page >