Table of Contents
Map of the Apacheria Prior to 1886 iv
Acknowledgments viii
Preface ix
Introduction xi
Apache Culture xi
Apache Bands and Lifeways xii
Apache Religious Belief xvi
Apache Courtship and Family Life xviii
Apache Training and Codes of Honor xxii
Part 1 Apache Raiding and Warfare 1
Apache Warrior Women 3
1861 Apache Diplomacy on the El Paso Road 5
"My Father Was a Good Man; He Killed Lots of White Eyes" 7
Juh's Assassination of Lt. Howard Cushing 10
Victorio 13
A Victorio Cavalry Ambush 17
Nana, Victorio's Segundo 20
Geronimo and the Arroyo Fight 23
Sierra Madre Apaches 27
Part 2 The Geronimo Wars 30
Geronimo's Only Capture 31
Geronimo's First Breakout from San Carlos, 1878 34
Geronimo's Second Breakout from San Carlos, 1881 37
Geronimo's Third and Last Breakout from San Carlos, 1885 41
Geronimo's Final Surrender and the Law of Unintended Consequences 45
Part 3 Apache Scouts 49
Apache Scouts: Heroes, Outlaws, and Survivors 50
Al Sieber, Chief of Scouts 54
Apache Scout Power 56
Apache Scouts and the Salt River Cave Fight 58
Apache Scout Tzoe, "Peaches" 60
Chato: Survivor and Apache Judas? 63
Part 4 The Apache Kid: Trials, Escape, Renegade 66
Trials of the Apache Kid 67
The Escape of the Apache Kid 70
Apache Kid, Renegade 73
Part 5 Massai-The Warrior Who Escaped 77
Massai's Early Life 78
Massai and Gray Lizard Escape from the Florida Train for Prisoners of War 81
Massai Takes A New Wife 85
Massai Goes to the Happy Place 88
Part 6 Apache Prisoners of War 91
Apache Prisoners of War for Twenty-Seven Years 93
Apache Prisoners of War at Mount Vernon Barracks 96
Mescaleros Sent to Florida with the Chiricahuas Get an Early Release 100
Apache Prisoners of War Sent to Fort Sill 103
Apache Prisoner of War Years at Fort Sill 107
Geronimo Asks President Theodore Roosevelt to Let His People Go 111
Geronimo's Twenty-Three Years in Captivity 114
Part 7 Early Life on the Mescalero Reservation 117
The Mescaleros Penned Up at Bosque Redondo 119
Five Hundred Mescaleros Disappear Overnight from Bosque Redondo 122
Victorio on the Mescalero Reservation 125
Invasion of the Mescalero Reservation 129
Agent W. H. H. Llewellyn, Tata Crooked Nose 131
The Jicarilla Come to Mescalero 134
Agent V. E. Stottler, Tata Loco 138
"Kill the Indian … Save the Man" 141
Part 8 The Chiefs of the Mescaleros 143
Cadette 144
Natzili, Sombrero, and Solon Sombrero 148
Magoosh, Chief of the Lipan Apache 151
San Juan 154
Peso, Last Mescalero Chief 157
Chiricahua Prisoners of War Return to Mescalero, New Mexico 160
Naiche, Last Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches 163
The Parallel Lives of Mangas, Son of Mangas Coloradas, and Naiche, Son of Cochise 167
Asa Daklugie: "It Took Four Years to Get Him to Talk" 170
The Last White Eye 173
Epilogue 176
Endnotes 179
Additional Reading and Information Resources 183
Index 184
About the Author 191
