Perhaps the greatest chief of the Chiricahua Apaches who ever lived, Cochise fought his way through southeastern Arizona and into Mexico in the 1870s, killing, as he put it, “10 white men for every Indian I have lost.” Tired of fighting, Cochise negotiated for peace in 1872 and never fought again. He supposedly died of cancer on June 8, 1874, and his body is buried in a secret crevice in his Dragoon Stronghold within Arizona’s Coronado National Forest. In spite of his controversial reputation, the people of Arizona named a county after him a mere seven years after his death.

True West November 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
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- The Medal of Honor
- Lynching and Hanging
- Horsethief Basin
- Revenge Begets Revenge
- What’s in a Name: Old West Style
- He Died with His Boots Off
- Maricopa
- The Train Robbers
- The Meticulous Rebirth of Old West Guns
- Rough Justice
- Tombstone Tragedy
- The Earp Attorney
- Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
- Whatever Happened to Big Nose Kate?
- Tucson, Tubac, Tumacacori, to Hell
- Kin to the James Boys
Departments
- Fire Engulfs Paramount Western Ranch
- Is Hard Knocks: A Life Story of the Vanishing West by Harry Young Accurate?
- Following the Bent Brothers
- Robber’s Roost Defender
- Did Frontier Women own Property during the Old West era?
- When did Navajos Arrive in Arizona?
- Western Events for November 2018
- A Historical Photo Shows a group of Cowboys with Pipes Upside Down in their Mouths. What’s that About?
- True West’s Hometown
- Old West Reproductions — the Devil is in the Detail
- Did Wyatt Earp own any Saloons in Alaska?
- Take Your Christmas Holiday Celebration to a New Level
- The Thirsty Trapper
- Hell on Wheels
- Tejano History Under One Roof
- “…Kill or Hang All Warriors…”
- Top 10 True Western Towns of 2018
- November/December 2011 Events