Who was White Apache? Joe Gallagher Ontario, California Dan Thrapp was preparing a book on “White Apache” Zebina Streeter when he died in 1994, and my response is informed by his unpublished manuscript. Streeter was born in Genoa, New York, on October 8, 1838. He served in the military until the end of the Civil War. Fluent in Spanish and conversant in Apache, he moved in 1866 to Mexico, where he served as a colonel under Benito Juárez. Back in the States, he became an interpre


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