M A J OR P L AY E R S I N T H E L O N G ES T WA R I N

AMERICAN HISTORY
Sparked by the kidnapping of Mickey Free in 1861, the Apache wars
remain the longest war in American historya 25-year struggle with the
U.S. government over Apache homelands. Now, with The Apache Wars,
celebrated historian of the West Paul Hutton presents the definitive
account of this monumental conflict. With cinematic flair and a historians
eye for detail, Hutton zeroes in on the men and women whose lives
shaped the final, bloody stand against an American army bent on their
destruction.

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M I C K E Y F R E E The 1861 kidnapping of this scrawny, eleven-year-old boy

set in motion over a quarter-century of
bloody warfare between the Apaches and
the Americans. First enslaved and then
adopted and raised by his captors to be an
Apache warrior, he soon found himself torn
between two worlds in conflict. Both sides
came to blame this one-eyed, red-headed
warrior for the endless conflict, but both
desperately needed him. To the Apaches
he was Coyote, the trickster, and to the
whites he was, as another scout put it:
half-Irish, half-Mexican, and all son-ofa bitch.

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A L S I E B E R He became the indispensable man on the Apache frontier. It was

said that he could think like an Apache,
and he certainly came to know them well
and earn their begrudging respect. As
chief-of-scouts throughout the Apache
Wars, he mentored Mickey Free, the
Apache Kid, and Tom Horn and served as
the right-hand man to Generals Crook and

string of generals. It was said that the only

man he ever feared was Mickey Free.

Miles. His betrayal by the Apache Kid left

him a crippled and embittered man bent
on revenge.

L O Z E N A woman of both beauty and

spiritual power, Lozen stepped outside her
traditional role to ride beside her brother
Victorio on the warpath. Her devotion to
her people, her skill as a warrior, and her
ability to foretell the future were legendary
among the Chiricahua. Geronimo called her
Warrior Woman, and she rode with him
after her brothers death.

G E N E R A L G E O R G E C R O O K The
Apaches called him Nantan Lupan, the
wolf, and they both feared and respected
him. He hunted them relentlessly, made
himself the most famous Indian fighter in
America as a result, and then defended
their rights. In the end, he foundered on
the twin rocks of his own arrogance and the
duplicity of his nemesis Geronimo.

C O C H I S E The greatest of the Chiricahua Apache chiefs, it was his betrayal

at Apache Pass over the kidnapping of
Mickey Free that started the war. He all
but drove the whites from Arizona and
made life on both sides of the international
line miserable for over a decade, until an
unlikely friendship with a bold white frontiersman led him to agree to a peace treaty.

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G E R O N I M O His has become a warrior

name for the ages, and rightly so. From
his youth, vengeance and warfare were his
driving passions, and he pursued both with
unrelenting ferocity. He left a trail of blood
across the American Southwest and northern Mexico that made his name a synonym
for terror, put a quarter of the U.S. Army
in pursuit, and destroyed the careers of a

T O M J E F F O R D S The Apaches called

him Taglito because of his long red
whiskers, and it was through his friendship
with Cochise that General O. O. Howard,
the famed one-armed Christian General
of the Civil War, came to make a tenuous
peace with the Apaches. Jeffords became
the agent for the Chiricahuas, and so long
as Cochise lived, the peace held.

A PA C H E K I D This Aravaipa Apache

boy embraced the white world and the new
order to quickly become one of the most
important of Siebers Apache scouts. Chiefof-scouts Tom Horn called him Siebers
pet. A chance encounter led him to a crucial choice between the world of the whites
and the Apaches. His actions made him a
renegade and set in motion the final drama
of the Apache Wars.

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