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Mount Glenn (7,520 ft; 2,290 m) is the highest point in the range. The Little Dragoon Mountains are the continuation of the Dragoon Mountains north of Texas Canyon. The mountains were included in the short-lived Dragoon National Forest, which was established in 1907 and combined into Coronado National Forest in 1908. The area is now included in ...
Mount Glenn, is in the Coronado National Forest, about 75 miles (121 km) east of Tucson, Arizona. The summit, in Cochise County, is the highest point in the Dragoon Mountains [2] and is a popular local hiking destination. Mount Glenn was named around 1888 after Calvin Glenn, who was a manager for the Chiricahua Cattle Co. at the time. [3]
The canyon is historically within the range of the Chiricahua Apache, and Cochise made his last stronghold near here in the Dragoon Mountains during the mid-1870s. In the mid to late 1880s, David A. Adams, a Cochise County pioneer, moved to the area from Coleman County, Texas, soon to be followed by other family members. Descendants still live ...
Cochise Stronghold, Dragoon Mountains, southeastern Arizona. Following various skirmishes, Cochise and his men were gradually driven into Arizona's Dragoon Mountains, but used the mountains for cover and as a base from which to continue attacks against white settlements. Cochise evaded capture and continued his raids against white settlements ...
Mount Glenn: Cochise: 7512 ft (2290 m) Mohon Peak: Yavapai: 7502 ft (2287 m) Mount Ballard: Cochise: 7500 ft (2286 m) Fissure Peak: Cochise: 7360 ft (2243 m) Red Butte† Coconino: 7324 ft (2232 m) Bryce Mountain: Graham: 7302 ft (2226 m) Rice Peak† Pinal: 7280 ft (2219 m) Hyde Creek Mountain† Yavapai: 7270 ft (2216 m) Mount Kimball: Pima ...
Council Rocks Archaeological District is an historical district in Cochise County, near St. David, Arizona. [1] It is located in the Coronado National Forest, along the western edge of the Dragoon Mountains. It is a canyon flanked by granite cliffs, and full of large boulders.
Cochise was unwilling to accept the Tularosa Valley as his reservation and home. In October 1872, Jeffords led General Oliver O. Howard to Cochise's Stronghold, believed to be China Meadow, in the Dragoon Mountains. Cochise demanded and got the Dragoon and Chiricahua Mountains as his reservation and Tom Jeffords as his agent. From 1872 to 1876 ...
The Little Dragoon Mountains, are included in the Douglas Ranger District of Coronado National Forest, in Cochise County, Arizona. [1] The summit of the range is the center peak of the three Mae West Peaks, 6 miles northwest of Dragoon, Arizona. The center peak, known as Lime has a peak elevation of 6,732 feet (2,052 m). [2]