The Navajo experience was tragic… Kit Carson is remembered as one of the premiere frontiersmen of the West. But Navajo and some Apache think of him...
A Different View of Kit Carson
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Apache
The Pima Revolt of 1751
The Pima Revolt of 1751 followed the silver strike at Arissona in October 1736. The strike attracted a large number of frontiersmen and rough-hewn...
Apache May Slaughter
True West reader Shawn Cote writes, “Has it ever been confirmed that Apache May Slaughter's biological father really was the Apache Kid, as...
Bringing out the Big Guns
The first time the army used howitzers against Indians In 1862, a Union army force was making its way across Arizona Territory. They had entered...
Cave Creek Ambush
December 22, 1873 Tonto Apaches vs Al Sieber and the 5th Cavalry Stationed at Camp McDowell, northeast of Phoenix, A.T., a unit of the 5th...
A Ghostly Battle
An Apache shaman caused a major battle in Arizona. It was a shaman, leading the Ghost Dance, that led to the Battle of Cibecue Creek in Arizona....
The Apache Artist
Naiche was more than just a war chief. Naiche is best known as the last hereditary chief of the Chiricahua Apache. He was the son of Cochise, and a...
Apache Wars
When was the most dangerous period in Arizona history during the Apache Wars? The most dangerous period began in 1861 and the years immediately...
Comancheros
The Comancheros were a mixed ethnicity of New Mexican merchants who traded with the Comanche, Kiowa, Lipan Apache and other Southern Plains people....
The Great Apache Scout Alchesay’s service to the U.S. earned him the nation’s highest honor.
Alchesay was a chief of the White Mountain Apaches—but he worked closely with the U.S. government. In the 1870s and 1880s, he served as a scout for...
The Lost Sullivan Mine
The fabulous Silver King Mine was first discovered in 1873, at a time when conflicts with the Apache Indians were frequent and few people dared...
The Last Campaign of Lt. Howard Cushing
There were many brave officers in the Frontier Army during the darkest days of the Apache campaigns in the late 1860s and early 1870s but none...