Location photos
Welcome to the website for my book the Roosevelt Gambit. I'm G. B. Eubanks
and I would like to thank you for spending some time with me.
The pictures you will be seeing will take us on a trip into the Gila National
Forest and to the Gila Cliff Dwellings. Along the way, I will relate the pictures
to the pertinent portions of the book.
I'm afraid that any description I might have made, as you will see, did not
do justice to the majesty of the Gila.

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- Picture from about 7500' looking down in the Gila River Basin
Along the trail used by the Hanshaw-Roosevelt Hunting Party. - Looking down into the Gila River Basin - West Fork
Along the trail used by the Hanshaw-Roosevelt Hunting Party - The North Fork of the Gila River
Near the campsite of the Hanshaw-Roosevelt Hunting Party - The Entrance to Cliff Dwellers Canyon
- About 100 yards heading into Cliff Dwellers Canyon
- The small stream that the Trail into the Canyon crosses in several places
- The railroad station sized boulder in the middle of the canyon
Where Bagbee and company waited to ambush Hanshaw and or Roosevelt - The first time one can see the Cliff Dwellling from the Canyon Floor
- Looking up the present day path/steps to the level of the Cliff Dwellings
At the top of the steps / the location of the initial ambush of the Hanshaw-Roosevelt Party - Natural walkway along the front of the Caves at the Cliff Dwellings
The ambush location - The First Cave where Cliff Dwellings were built
- Inside the Cliff Dwellings where Hanshaw & Roosevelt took shelter from the attack
- Inside the Cliff Dwellings - the only 2 story dwelling
Notice across the canyon to the right of the 2 story dwelling the location of the Lewis Gun - The Corn Crib where Roosevelt hid from Fierro / Capt. Sanchez
- Looking up Cliff Dweller Canyon
On the left, the shingle where the ambushers were hidden - The place where Leighton Hanshaw was located when he took the shot at the Lewis Gun
- Looking at the mouth of Cliff Dweller Canyon
From the trail used by Hanshaw and Roosevelt - The spot from which Hanshaw took the shot at Bagbee
Then tumbled down the steep slope - The flash flood came down the Gila River here and met the flood waters coming down from Cliff Dweller Canyon
- G. B. Eubanks - Taking his 38th Trip to the Cliff Dwellings
- Pancho Villa State Park, Columbus, NM
Looking at Cootes Hill - March 9, 2010 - This statute of Pancho Villa is in hundreds of Mexican villages. He is the hero of the common people - who are not actually at all common!
- From Cootes Hill looking towards Palomas, Mexico about 3 miles away
- The remains of Col. Slocums Headquarters
- Pancho Villa Raid Celebration
Re-enactor on horse at top of Cootes Hill - G. B. Eubanks shaking the hand of a re-enactor
- Re-enactors' horses - They ride from all over Mexico to Columbus, NM for this event
- Mexican dancers at the festivities
It is an interesting event and worth the trip
Always on the weekend closest to March 9 - The spectators join the dancers