William H. Emory served in two wars but is best remembered for leading the expedition that mapped out the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border and shaped images of the Southwest.

The Apache or Indian Wars would last four more decades, with the Apache, led by chiefs such as Cochise and Geronimo, who would only give himself up in the 1880s.

IMPORTANT FROM NEW-MEXICO.; More About the Recent Battle at Apache Pass A Serious Check to the Rebels Movements of the Opposing Forces, &c. Share full article. April 25, 1862.

Thursday marked the 175th anniversary of the signing of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War, winning the U.S. what is now most of Arizona, along with the entirety or parts of several ...