Where Are They Now?

After having been lost to history for some 75 years, the graves of the Wickenburg Massacre victims have now been found

On 17 Feb 2022, five teams of cadaver dogs from Arizona, Missouri, Oregon, and Texas converged on the Henry Wickenburg Pioneer Cemetery and on the Wickenburg Massacre Site.  The dogs, specially trained to locate historic graves, detected no human scent in the cemetery other than that emanating from the graves of Henry Wickenburg and his friends.  At the massacre site, dogs alerted on the grave in the wash possibly that of Peter Hamel, the cairn and cross believed to be the grave of Frederick Wadsworth Loring, and at three locations surrounding a post surrounded by a small cairn east and slightly south of Loring's Cross, believed to be the graves of "Dutch" John Lance, Charles Adams, and Frederick Shoholm.  It is very likely that William George Salmon's grave was missed when the other five were moved, and is therefore still located in the Wickenburg Pioneer Cemetery.

None of the other "graves" previously marked by the Arizona Pioneer & Cemetery Research Project (APCRP) contain any trace of human scent.

Locations of dog "Hits" at massacre site.