Dateline: Fort Grant, Arizona Territory, Saturday, May 23, 1896. Edgar Rice Burroughs, age 20, arrived here today to beg…
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From Tubac, Tumacacori to Hell In a sense, Pete Kitchen represented Arizona’s transition from lawless frontier to civilization.
In a sense, Pete Kitchen represented Arizona’s transition from lawless frontier to civilization. In 1861, the U. S. Army…
Did the Apache Call Their Great Leader Geronimo or His Original Name, Goyahkla?
Did the Apache call their great leader Geronimo or his original name, Goyahkla? Al Maurine Tucson, Arizona Geronimo, a p…
Manipulated into His Own Death Solving the mystery behind an Apache hunter’s death overturns assumptions about Apache battlefield behavior.
On May 5, 1871, Sgt. John Mott and three others followed Apache footprints, tracking what they thought were the incautio…
An Apache Named Fun Was he? One can only hope.
On the San Carlos Apache Reservation in the 1870s the U.S. Army was charged with writing down the names of each tribal m…
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…
Land of the Apache Review of W. Michael Farmer's Apacheria.
Apacheria: True Stories of Apache Culture 1860-1920 is an insightful introduction to the history of the Apache people. F…
A Hero One Day, A Victim Another Emanuel Stance lived a checkered life.
Sgt. Emanuel Stance was a hero, the first Buffalo Soldier to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. He led a patrol aga…
Studio Props? Geronimo-Chatto photos spark controversy.
Our February issue sharing how history should view Chatto, in John Sandifer’s “Apache Traitor or Hero?” article, has spa…
Geronimo Finds Jesus? The Apache leader converted…maybe.
It was 1903, and Apache leader Geronimo staggered into a Dutch Reform Church at Ft. Sill, OK, where he was being held as…