With nearly 300 years of history to investigate the Apache-Spanish-Mexican-American conflict, many historians choose to …
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Return to Fort Apache A new life at a frontier fort once despised by Apaches.
One could argue there is enough negative about the history of Fort Apache that people might not want to come,” Karl Hoer…
A Tragic Mistake Captain Crawford killed by friendly fire.
Captain Emmet Crawford was one of the tragic casualties of the Apache Wars. In late 1885, he led a small force into Mex…
Mangas Coloradas’ Undue Fate
There’s no way to look at the murder and mutilation of Apache Chief Mangas Coloradas without horror. He is conside…
Never Wasted a Bullet Yanosha was one of Geronimo’s bravest Chiricahua Apache Warriors.
He was known as one of the bravest of Geronimo’s warriors, a sharpshooter who never wasted a bullet. He also helped othe…
And the War Begins The 1862 Battle of Apache Pass starts the conflict between the U.S. and Apache Nation.
Perhaps war between the U.S. and the Apaches was inevitable. They were once united by a hatred of Mexico, but the allia…
The Canoa Land Grant Ranch
The San Ignacio de la Canoa land grant is one of the oldest and most interesting in Arizona. The Canoa, located south o…
The Wind and the Darkness Paul Andrew Hutton’s epic history The Apache Wars resets our idea of the 25-year tri-cultural border conflict, while a new biography of Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, the tragedy of the Baker Massacre, the wild tale of Russian Bill, and tales of the Old and New West enlighten and entertain.
In the Bible’s Book of Revelation, John the Apostle prophesizes the coming of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse: Conqu…
The Severed Heads Campaign Brutal, but true, the little-known account of the U.S. Army paying for beheadings during the ferocious Apache Wars.
Mickey Free rode into Camp Apache on April 27, 1874, with the bloody severed head of the renegade warrior Pedro hanging …
The Apache Wars in Apache Words The Fort Sill Apache chairman looks back 150 Years as he marks the centennial release of Apache prisoners of war in Oklahoma.
In January 1863, Mangas Coloradas went to Pinos Altos, New Mexico, to seek peace with the United States. Other Chiricahu…