There's no way to look at the murder and mutilation of Apache Chief Mangas Coloradas without horror. He is considered by historians as one one of the most important Native American leaders of the 19th Century. He was a skilled war leader and chief and was father-in-law to Cochise.
Long before the “White Eyes” came to the southwest, the Apaches had warred with Mexicans. So in 1846 when the Unite
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