Search Results for: Apache
Old West Book Reviews: Last Warrior
The Last Warrior, W. Michael Farmer, Five Star Publishing, $25.95, Cloth. Historical Fiction. This is the third book in the series featuring the Mescalero Apache known as “Yellow Boy.” Earlier books in this series are Killer of Witches, and Blood of the Devil. Yellow Boy lived sometime from 1860 through 1950, giving the author Michael […]
One Who Yawns aka Geronimo
One Who Yawns was born in 1823. He was known as an easygoing person. But, as a young man, while the men were away, Mexicans attacked his village and killed the women and children, among who were his mother, wife and three children. This instilled in him a hatred for Mexicans that lasted throughout his […]
Chief Eskiminzin
In the early 1870’s Chochise and his band were raiding and killing white settlers in southern Arizona, and resentment was running high against all Indians. Chief Eskiminzin was the leader of a small group of Apache. Low on food and poorly clothed he brought his people to Camp Grant near Tucson, Arizona. Eventually more than 400 […]
Old West Book Review: Health of the Seventh Cavalry; A Medical History
Health of the Seventh Cavalry; A Medical History, Edited by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott, University of Oklahoma Press, (405) 325-3200, $3295, Cloth. 480 Pages, Illustrations, Maps, Graphics, Charts, Bibliography, Index. Persons interested in the life and times of members of Custer’s Seventh Cavalry will find this book a treasure trove of information pertaining […]
Chief Geronimo and His Braves
September 2, 1894, Daily Star, Tucson, Arizona – A dispatch sent out from Chicago is that old Geronimo and his band of Apache savages, who have been prisoners at Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama for a long time, are to be removed to Fort Sill, O. T. Secretary Fairmont has ordered their return to the west, […]
