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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.

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, the history and the culture of the Apaches since the era of the Spanish Conquest are surveyed.

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.

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.

Trained as a blacksmith, he describes daily life on the reservation until the resettlement of many Apaches in Arizona.

A first-person account into the end of the Indian Wars by an aide present at the final meetings with Cochise.

A history of the Indians who have lived in the American Southwest from the Ice Age to the present day, told from their point of view.