If you ask people to name America’s longest war, many likely will pick the seemingly never-ending conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. But in this well-researched, engrossing book, Albuquerque author ...
In 1861, a twelve-year-old boy named Felix was stolen during an Apache raid — a single act that set off decades of bloodshed between settlers and the Chiricahua. Raised among the very people who took ...
Almost from the moment the United States acquired what we today call the Southwest (through the Mexican War in 1849), the Apache tribes rejected Anglo-American occupation. The Civil War came and went, ...
In the spring of 1870, more than a hundred Apaches — men, women and children — were massacred after surrendering to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant near Tucson in the Arizona Territory. They were killed ...