Cochise biographer Edwin R Sweeney fell in love with the West like a lot of us: through television and a good school library. Raised in and near South Boston, Massachusetts, he grew up watching the television series Broken Arrow, when he wasn’t rooting for his hometown Celtics and Red Sox. At 12 years old, after the family had moved to the suburbs, a school friend of his shared with him a biography of Cochise, and the story of the brave, honest Apache chief resonated with young Edwin. Ever


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