R. Michael Wilson

Massacre at Wickenburg: Arizona's Greatest Mystery R. Michael Wilson 1st edition

On November 5, 1871, a westbound stagecoach carrying seven men and one woman left Wickenburg, Arizona. At 8 A. M. the stagecoach was shot full of holes in an ambush that left six people dead. One man and the lone woman passenger, though severely wounded, escaped into the desert. To this day controversy over who the perpetrators of the massacre were--the Indians, the Mexicans, or the wounded passengers that escaped--is still hotly debated. The U. S. Army's investigation concluded that the Yavapai Indians were to blame, which lead to a policy of "removal and concentration" that altered the fate of nearly every Indian in America's Southwest.

Massacre at Wickenburg retraces the incident and presents all of the evidence and a convincing case for "whodunit." However, the analysis is intended to help the reader draw an independent conclusion.