![]() ![]() Detailing folk-rock from mid-1966 to the end of the 1960s, Eight Miles High portrays the mutation of folk-rock into psychedelia via California bands like the Byrds and Jefferson Airplane the maturation of folk-rock composers in the birth of the singer-songwriter movement the reemergence of Bob Dylan and the inception of country-rock the rise of folk-rock’s first supergroup from the ashes of the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield the origination of a truly British form of folk-rock and the growth of the live folk-to-rock music festival, from Newport to Woodstock. No images of the original monument are known to exist.Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock’s Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock is the sequel to Turn! Turn! Turn!: The 1960s Folk-Rock Revolution, which documented the birth and heyday of folk-rock in the 1960s. The image below is believed to be a replica of the original monument. The fate of the Shafter monument is not documented, but is thought to have either been destroyed and scattered by the native tribes or scavenged and used in the construction of early houses and other buildings by settlers. Eventually the community of Monument grew up nearby, thought to be the oldest Anglo community in what is now Lea County. The spring was first occupied by Anglo buffalo hunters near the end of the years in which buffalo were plentiful on the plains. The country to the north is for fifty miles, hard high prairie, to the south and west sandy grass in all directions, of luxuriant growth, of the finest quality found on the plains wood abundant (roots) for fuel, and good building stone in the hills near by (limestone).” It can be seen for several miles in all directions… Monument spring is a very large spring of excellent water, furnishing enough for several thousand head of horses. ![]() ![]() This monument is of nearly white stone, about eight feet in diameter at the base, four at the top, and 7 1/2 feet high. Gil Hinshaw quotes Shafter as writing the following about the monument (1), “Monument Spring is so named from a monument I had built on a hill southwest and 1/12 miles distant from the spring. Shafter is said to have ordered a structure erected to help make the location easier to find on the nearly flat prairie. Pursuing them, they came across a large spring in the New Mexico Territory. At a landmark then known as Dug Spring, believed to be located near the Texas-New Mexico border in what is now Winkler County, Texas and Lea County, New Mexico, they were attacked by a group of Apaches. They were searching for Apaches and looking for water sources, the latter was known to be rare between the Concho and Pecos rivers. In the summer of 1875, Shafter was leading troops from the 10th Cavalry and 24th Infantry based in of Fort Concho. Shafter retired in 1901 and lived in Bakersfield, California until his death in 1906. He continued to serve during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Thereafter, he was in service as a colonel in the 17th United States Colored Infantry, among his other postings. He was captured by Confederate forces during the war and was confined to a prison until his release in 1864. ![]() He led troops during the Civil War as a first lieutenant in the 7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment and for his actions received the Medal of Honor. Shafter (1835-1906) was a United States Army officer in command of so called Buffalo Soldiers of the 24th United States Infantry Regiment in West Texas and the New Mexico Territory. ![]()
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