More than any other single individual, Lt. Charles Gatewood was responsible for the surrender of Geronimo and his renegade Apaches in 1886. He...
Long before the Euro-Americans arrived Indian tribes were constantly at war with one another. Captives were often put to death. While being...
Chasing a stagecoach was mostly the stuff of Hollywood because it added more drama to the event. In reality, the stage robbers tried to find a...
The Apache Kid vs Al Sieber, Then Everyone in Arizona
The Apache Kid is as elusive in death as he was in life.
Alchesay of the People of the White Mountains (Dził Łigai Si’án N’dee)
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The Apache never saw themselves as a political unit. They were families, clans and bands. Being matrilineal, chiefs often united bands by marriage. ...
In the summer of 1882 a number of Apaches rallied around a leader named Na-ti-o-tish and went on a spree in the Tonto Basin. From the town of Globe...
During the Battle at Apache Pass the Apache warriors had built a breast work of rocks on two hills just east of the Butterfield Stage Station,...
During the mid-1870s the federal government began using churches to staff the reservations in Arizona. The two most successful converters, the...
Review of historian Robert N. Watt’s “With My Face to My Bitter Foes”: Nana’s War 1880-1881.