A pioneer log cabin in Bonita Canyon: The history of the Stafford Cabin
Livingston D. 1994. A pioneer log cabin in Bonita Canyon: The history of the Stafford Cabin. Historic Resource Study. National Park Service, Department of the Interior
This report contains historical information about the Stafford Cabin and its significance in the history of the Southwest. The Stafford Cabin is a log and frame building located in Bonita Canyon, a small drainage from the west side of the Chiricahua Mountains into the dry buy productive Sulphur Spring Valley in Cochise County, Arizona. The history of the Stafford Cabin involves a number of facets, from a homestead claim during the Apache resistance to family life in a pioneer environment to its last decades as a guest cottage at a modestly popular dude ranch. Perhaps of foremost significance is the pioneer era, or the Stafford years, 1880-1918, a time when the earliest settlers appeared in the area and developed a ranching and agricultural legacy in the Sulphur Spring Valley. This document will hopefully shed new light on the significance of the Stafford Cabin in the history of the Southwest.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Livingston, Dewey
- Date of Issue
- 1994
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Department of the Interior
- Units
- CHIR , HIST
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Apache, Bonita Canyon, Chiricahua, Cultural Resources, ehistory, Farming, History, homestead, Lob Cabin, Pioneers, Ranching, Settlers, Southwest, Stafford Cabin, Sulphur Spring Valley