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In addition to a close-up picture of a pivotal figure in western history, Cochise offers accounts of a vanished world from people who lived in that world.

For a quarter century - 1861 to 1886 - the U.S. military attempted to subjugate one of the largest Indian tribes of what is today the American Southwest. "The Apache Wars" is the gripping tale of how, thanks to leaders such as Victorio and Geronimo, the Apache Indians held out longer than any other major U.S. tribe.

General George Crook's adie de camp recounts the pursuit of Geronimo and other Apache Indians across southern Arizona and New Mexico to Mexico's Sierra Madre in 1883.

With attention to the nineteenth century, this is the history and the culture of the Apaches since the era of the Spanish Conquest are surveyed.

The Apache peoples of the SW U.S., including Southern Arizona and northern Mexico, were so legendary as guerrilla fighters that their name is still a byword for a fierce, elusive and unpredictable foe. The tactics used at Apache Pass and against the California Column are still studied by military students today.

In addition to a close-up picture of a pivotal figure in western history, Cochise offers accounts of a vanished world from people who lived in that world.

Contains the entire collection of dispatches filed by the author from the Arizona front and published by the Los Angeles times in 1886.

For a half century the dust never settles as U.S. troops fight the Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico and defeat the single uprisings of the Navajos and Pueblos. Two chapters describe the Modoc War in northern California from 1871 to 1873. Includes information on Battle of Apache Pass and the Bascom Affair.

An inventory of the archeological survey done at the Fort Bowie 1 and Fort Bowie 2 site, and a highly-detailed site map.

Shifting from one distinct voice and viewpoint to the other, this intertwined biography achieves a novelistic sweep while taking full advantage of transcripts and negotiations, newspaper accounts, journals, and primary sources, as well as each man's autobiography.

Details the U.S. Army's campaign in the years following the Civil War to contain the American Indian and promote Western expansion.

Odie B. Faulk, a leading historian of the American Southwest, offers a lively and often chilling account of the war that raged over the deserts and mountains of Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico in the mid 1880's, and traces its legacy well past the ultimatum delivered to Geronimo on August 25, 1886.

The cousin and lifelong associate of Geronimo, Jason Betzinez relives his years on the warpath with the Apache chief. He participates in Geronimo's eventual surrender to the U.S. Army, goes to Florida as a prisoner of war, attends the Carlisle Indian school in Pennsylvania, and in 1900 joins his people at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where they had been moved by the government six years earlier. Trained as a blacksmith, he describes daily life on the reservation until the resettlement of many Apaches in Arizona. Includes information on Battle of Apache Pass and the Bascom Affair.

Recounts the history of white and Native American conflict during the last half of the nineteenth century, examining the perspectives of both sides.

A first-person account into the end of the Indian Wars by an aide present at the final meetings with Cochise. A detailed foreward covers the Bascom Affair and the ensuing years of bloodshed but the descriptive passages of CPT Sladen share the culture of the military of the period and of the everyday Apache, illiciting nuances of a cultural understanding that, had it been present 12 years before, might have prevented the atrocities committed by both sides.

"Once They Moved Like the Wind" is the epic story of the Apache campaign, told with sympathy and understanding. David Roberts recognizes that in struggling to save their land, the Apaches were fighting to preserve their way of life. Evenhandedly, he describes the sorry history of the reservations, where the Apaches were deceived and abused by the U.S. government and its agents, while at the same time he acknowledges reliable contemporary sources that reported on the Apaches' cruelty. Using historical archives and contemporary accounts, David Roberts has written an original, stirring account of the last years of the free Apaches.