Apaches in the Southwest’s Borderlands

Mark Santiago tackles the issue of the Spanish deportation of Apache prisoners of war during the late 18th and into the early 19th centuries in The Jar of Severed Hands (University of Oklahoma Press; $29.95). The title certainly grabs the reader’s attention, but not until you have begun to read this masterful book do the true horrors of war show themselves. An allusion that Santiago uses throughout his book is the idea of the mailed fist in the velvet glove. The Spanish essentially ga