Can you tell me something about the Apache of southern Arizona? George Rodriguez Newalla, Oklahoma Let’s start with early 1861, when Cochise was wrongly accused of kidnapping the boy who grew up to become the great scout Mickey Free. War resulted, lasting 10 years until a trusted white man named Tom Jeffords managed to arrange peace talks between the chief and Gen. Oliver Howard. Cochise asked for a reservation in the Chiricahua Mountains, his homeland, with Jeffords as his agent. General Ge


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