If I am right, you are looking down into the very spot where Howard, Sladen and Jeffords first made contact with Cochise.  This meeting, however, did not occur straight away, much to the group's consternation.   Anxious as they were to discover at last whether or not their efforts were to be rewarded by an approachable Cochise, they were told upon arriving in this high valley that the Chief was camped some distance away, in the area that was known as the West Stronghold, and that they would have to wait until the next day to meet with him.  Sladen was nervous, as is evident in reading his journal, but Howard soon drew great comfort from little signs he was picking up in this outpost.

     They were greeted somewhat cooly by the small band encamped here, and given little in the way of assurance by the adults present.  None of the men could speak for Cochise, and a few of them seemed utterly cheerless.  But the children, it seems, were drawn to General Howard, and it was from their great warmth and curiousity that he concluded their mission was going to be a peaceful one.
 

      Early the next morning Howard and Sladen would at long last meet face to face with the great Cochise.