Editing Sahuarita, Arizona (section)

===Incorporation into the U.S. (1854–1874)===
In 1854, following the [[Gadsden Purchase]], Sahuarita would become a part of the [[new Mexico Territory|Territory of New Mexico]], in the United States of America. In the same year, [[Andrew B. Gray]] would travel the region on behalf of the [[Texas Western Railroad]], in order to run a preliminary survey of the region. Meanwhile, the Native American peoples of the region were being pushed onto each other's land through American expansionism. In 1857, the Sobaipuri, who had acted as a buffer between the hostile Mexicans to the south and Apache to the north, finally collapsed under the pressure and vacated the area, generally moving westward to Papago territory. Sahuarita was part of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[Arizona Territory (CSA)|Arizona Territory]] between 1861 and 1862 before being captured by the [[Union Army|Union]] and incorporated into [[Arizona Territory]] in 1863. In 1867, Fort Crittenden was created between Sonoita and Patagonia in order to support the establishment of American settlements in the [[Santa Cruz River (Arizona)|Santa Cruz Valley]]. In 1874, the San Xavier reservation was created, now called the Tohono O'odham Reservation, and Native Americans were forcibly relocated to the reservation.<ref name=atlas />