Review of Mark Santiago’s A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799.
A War to Remember
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Doug Hocking
Building Your Western Library: Doug Hocking
Historian Doug Hocking’s experiences growing up in Northern New Mexico on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation—and his lifelong ties to the Rio...
Land of the Apache
Apacheria: True Stories of Apache Culture 1860-1920 is an insightful introduction to the history of the Apache people. Farmer, focusing his research...
A Daring Sense of Humor
Yuma Bill’s broad smile suggests he engaged his cavalry comrades in more than one game of “grinning through a horse collar.” Colonel George Forsyth...
From Blood Brother to Broken Arrow
Tom Jeffords leans on the bar of a saloon in Mesilla, New Mexico Territory, whiskey in one hand and a woman on the other. Will Harden (modeled after...
The Alleged Bascom Affair
The legend of the Bascom Affair casts Lt. George Bascom in the worst possible, unfair light, blaming him for starting 11 years of bloody warfare....