Lewis Hector Garrard [SEP] date of death
Lewis Hector Garrard
Lewis Hector Garrard (15 June 1829 – 7 July 1887) wrote an enduring book, "Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail", about his visit to the southwestern United States in 1846-1847.
Background.
Garrard, christened Hector Lewis Garrard, was the son of a prominent family in Cincinnati, Ohio On 1 Sept 1846, Garrard, 17 years old, joined a caravan in Westport Landing, Missouri to travel along the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico. He stopped
the Anglo community in Taos was small, and several men had been killed by the rebels, the jury pool was extremely limited. The court was in session for fifteen days. The jury found 15 men guilty of murder and treason (under the new US rule), and the judges sentenced them to death.
An eyewitness, Lewis Hector Garrard, described the trial and events:
It certainly did appear to be a great assumption of the part of the Americans to conquer a country and then arraign the revolting inhabitants