WOAC: Ambush on the Rear of Roberts’ Column Upon Entering Apache Pass

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.

Wellman covers conflicts from 1837 through 1886 in Arizona, New Mexico, and California. Important chiefs covered include Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, Victorio, Geronimo, and Captain Jack. Army officers covered include George Crook and Nelson Miles.

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.

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.

Of the many tales of conflict and warfare between the U.S. government and the Indian tribes, perhaps none is more dramatic or revealing than the story of the Apache wars.