Historical Marker
The Clanton Hideout
Animas, Hidalgo County · New Mexico
The panel's ambush below the border happened, by most accounts, just north of it. Before dawn on August 13, 1881, Newman Haynes Clanton, Old Man Clanton, and the men driving cattle with him were attacked in Guadalupe Canyon, near the boundary monument where Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora and Chihuahua meet. Five or six died, among them Jim Crane, and a statement signed afterward put the killings in Guadalupe Canyon, New Mexico. The attackers are usually taken for Mexican troops avenging Skeleton Canyon. Clanton was later reburied beside his son Billy, killed at the O.K. Corral that October.
What the plaque says
Official Scenic Historic Marker The Clanton Hideout The infamous Clanton Gang had two crude dugouts here in the 1880s that served as hideouts and a base for wide-ranging outlaw activities, particularly in connec- tion with the Curly Bill Gang's depredations along the Smuggler's Trail that passed by here. Old Man Clanton was ambushed below the border in revenge for a Skel- eton Canyon massacre.
Where it stands
31.95238, -108.80771 · Directions
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