MOUNT SEDGEWICK
New Mexico - Cibola National Forest
November 21, 1920: "Mrs. D.B. Whiteside of Diener, N.M., acted as guard and lookout on Mt. Sedgwich on the Manzano National Forest in Northern New Mexico this year. She has a ranch at the base of this mountain and has assumed the duties of lookout formerly performed by her late husband at this same place. Mrs. Whiteside has considerable experience fighting fires both during the time that her husband was a guard and later and has successfully fought more than one fire single handed." (Tombstone Epitaph)
June 20, 1931: "Communicating with the forest service lookout station atop Mount Sedgwick, 20 miles west of Grant, Supervisor Adams learning that two of the fires were under control and that a fire fighting crew as proceeding to the largest blaze from his ranger station at McCaffey." (Albuquerque Journal)
June 25, 1939: "It was believed lightning started the fire during an electrical storm in the area three days ago, that the fire gained headway because of the extreme dryness of the forest. The Forest Service recently placed emergency lookout guards at Oso Ridge and on Mount Sedgewick." (Albuquerque Journal)
July 20 1943: "How a forest fire lookout, guided an airplane flyer or crew, lost in a heavy rain storm, safely from the Sedgewick Lookout station, 40 miles southwest of Grants, was related today by Perl Charles, assistant supervisor of the Cibola forest.
The plane was flying at great height in almost zero visibility over the lookout station. It kept circling about the station.
Roy Van Duesen, lookout, could not see it. He telephoned the Cibola forest service headquarters and latter contacted the CAA here.
CAA officials contacted an emergency field between Acomita and El Morro and the field man, by radio, sent word to the plane, giving a location and direction. Forestry men say the plane was guided to safety, probably to the Albuquerque airport." (The Gallup Independent)