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James Kirker
James Kirker (1793–1852) was an Irish-born American pirate, soldier, mercenary, merchant, Mountain man, and scalp hunter. He is best known for his contracts with the Mexican government to kill or capture Apache Indians.
==Early life==
Kirker was born in Killead in Co. Antrim to an Ulster Scots family, but left the British Isles for New York, USA at the age of 16 to avoid conscription in the navy. In an ironic twist, he became a "legal" American privateer to raid British ships off the American east coast in the War of 1812. He was a privateer for a year, but returned to New York in 1813 and married Catherine Donigan and had a son, James B. Kirker. In 1817, Kirker abandoned his family to go to St. Louis, Missouri with several kinsmen. In St. Louis, Kirker worked as a merchant.〔Smith, Ralph A. "Kirker, James." ''Handbook of Texas Online'', http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fki.54. accessed 16 Jul 2012〕
In 1822, Kirker joined a William Henry Ashley fur trapping expedition up the Missouri River. In 1824, he followed the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico and spent winters during the next decade trapping and trading beaver pelts in the southern Rocky Mountains. He began working at the Santa Rita mine near Silver City, New Mexico in 1826 and escorted wagon trains of copper to Chihuahua, Mexico. In 1833, without divorcing his first wife. he married Rita Garcia and in 1835 he became a Mexican citizen. The couple had three sons and a daughter.〔Smith, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fki.54. accessed 16 Jul 2012〕 He became known in Mexico as Santiago Querque or Quirque.
Kirker is described as a "large, agile man," fearless, an excellent marksman and horseman. He was considered during his lifetime as having "great enterprise and vision."
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