A strange card game decided the fate of six Apache warriors, captured by U.S. troops in southwest Arizona in 1861.
Lt. Isaiah Moore and Asst. Surgeon Bernard John Dowling Irwin wanted to hang the captives. Lt. George Bascom favored sparing them. They played a game of seven-up to resolve things—and Moore won. The Apache were hanged, the execution viewed by Dos-Teh-Seh, the wife of Cochise, and

True West May 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- How did Settlers and Cowboys Calculate Miles?
- Lincoln, Nebraska
- Cowan’s Auction
- How Accurate was the Language in the 2010 Version of True Grit?
- Shaken, Stirred and Strong
- What History Has Taught Me: Howard Terpning
- Did Ballistics Forensics Ever Come into Play in Solving Crimes in the Old West?
- Was Doc Holliday Really a Deadly Dentist?
- The Diné Return to the Four Corners
- Seminole Scouts
- Battle of Rosebud
- Did Frontier Soldiers go through Boot Camp?
- The Militancy of the Miners