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Apache Leaders: The Lives and Times of Notable Apache Chiefs
An overview of the Chiricahua Apache leaders Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, Victorio, Juh, Geronimo and Naiche, their bands, and the war, removal and imprisonment they faced.
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Chiricahua Leaders
Cochise, Mangas Coloradas, Victorio, Juh, Geronimo and their bands.
Apache Apache Cochise: A Study of the Tribe's Notorious Leader
How Cochise has been remembered, from army reports and frontier legend to Chiricahua descendants, and what the 1872 reservation agreement did and did not promise.
Apache Apache Geronimo: A Study of the Tribe's Famous Leader
Geronimo's later life as a prisoner at Fort Sill, and how his name and image have been used and misused in American popular culture, from fairs to films and slogans.
Apache Apache Juh: A Study of the Tribe's Fierce Leader
The Nednhi Apache of the Sierra Madre, a Chiricahua band, and where Juh fits among Chiricahua leaders, with notes on homeland, neighbors and later history.
Apache Apache Mangas Coloradas: A Study of the Tribe's Powerful Leader
The Chihenne (Warm Springs) Apache and their New Mexico homeland, with Mangas Coloradas and later leaders such as Victorio, Loco and Nana, and what became of the Chihenne.
Apache Apache Victorio: A Study of the Tribe's Brave Leader
The Warm Springs reservation question: how federal removal of the Chihenne to San Carlos in 1877 led to the flights and war associated with Victorio.
Apache Cochise: A Study of the Tribe's Notorious Leader
A careful biography of Cochise, the Chokonen Chiricahua leader, covering the 1861 Bascom affair, years of war and the 1872 peace, and why 'notorious' is a poor label.
Apache Geronimo: A Study of the Tribe's Famous Leader
A factual biography of Geronimo (Goyahkla), a Bedonkohe Chiricahua medicine man and war leader, from his early life through the 1886 surrender and decades as a prisoner of war.
Apache Juh: A Study of the Tribe's Fierce Leader
A cautious profile of Juh, Nednhi Chiricahua leader in the Sierra Madre, explaining how sparse and contested the sources are and why 'fierce' is a poor description.
Apache Mangas Coloradas: A Study of the Tribe's Powerful Leader
A factual biography of Mangas Coloradas, Chihenne and Bedonkohe Apache leader, from the early mining frontier to his killing in 1863 while under a flag of truce.
Apache Victorio: A Study of the Tribe's Brave Leader
A biography of Victorio, Chihenne Apache leader, covering his struggle to keep the Warm Springs homeland, the 1879 to 1880 campaign and his death at Tres Castillos in 1880.
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