Thomas Jefferson Jeffords (January 1, 1832 – February 19, 1914) [1] was a United States Army scout, Indian agent, prospector, and superintendent of overland mail in the Arizona Territory. His friendship with Apache leader Cochise was instrumental in ending the Indian wars in that region.[2] He first met Cochise when he rode alone into Cochise's camp in 1871 to request that the chief come to Canada Alamosa for peace talks. Cochise declined at least in part because he was afraid to travel with his family after the recent Camp Grant Massacre. Three months later he made the trip and stayed for over six months during which time their friendship grew while the negotiations failed. 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, there was peace in southern Arizona. Then renegade Apaches killed Nicholas Rogers who had sold them whiskey and the cry went out to abolish the reservation and remove Jeffords as agent. Tom Jeffords embarked on a series of ventures as sutler and postmaster at Fort Huachuca, head of the first Tucson water company trying to bring artesian water to that city, and as prospector and mine owner and developer. He died at Owl Head Buttes in the Tortolita Mountains 35 miles north of Tucson.[3]
^A: Dan L. Thrapp: Al Sieber Chief of Scouts, page 218 B: Dito: The Conquest of Apacheria, page 145 C: Arizona Daily Star, Tucson on February 20, 1914 D: His biography show the February 19, 1914 as date of death. E: also this biography of Access Genealogy
^"Tom Jeffords: Indian Agent" by Harry G. Cramer III (Tucson: Journal of Arizona History, Autumn, 1976, pp. 265–300)
^Sonnichsen, Charles Leland (1988). "Who was Tom Jeffords". Pilgrim in the sun: a southwestern omnibus. Texas Western Press. pp. 88–99.
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