WOAC: Butterfield Station

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.

This book provides essential information on major battles and military campaigns, treaties, significant sites, American Indian tribes, and notable military and political leaders, both Indian and white, presented in a handy, encyclopedic style.

Taking the long view of Chiricahua Apache history, including the tribe's view of the universe, the author touches on the devastating years of the Bascom Affair, Butterfield stage / Overland mail, the reaction to and relationship with the Apache Pass stage station, California Column, food, provisions, and rampaging disease.

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.

Apacheria ran from the Colorado to the Rio Grande and beyond, from the great canyons of the North for a thousand miles into Mexico.

This thorough history covers all of the salient events of the Indian Wars. From LT John G. Parke and his railroad survey that pointed out Puerto del Dado / Apache Pass (later used by the Butterfield Stage / Overland Mail routes), to the Apache tribe's relationship to that station, to the California Column and the tragic Bascom Affair that would usher in the era of warfare called the Indian Wars.

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.

In this first full-length biography of the legendary chief, Edwin R. Sweeney vividly portrays the Apache culture in which Mangas rose to power and the conflict with Americans that led to his brutal death.

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