This valley owes its name to the two springs located one mile north of this monument. From 400 A.D. to 1450 A.D. Indigenous Indians farmed the region. Their bedrock mortar pits remain on the nearby hill. Later Chiricahua Apaches, Spaniards, Mexica…
Greatest of Apache WarriorsDied June 8, 1874In this his favorite stronghold
Interred secretly by his followersThe exact place of burial was known to onlyOne white man - his blood brotherThomas J. Jeffords