The Struggle for Apacheria (Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890)
Prolific author Cozzens (The Civil War in the West) has  assembled a collection of contemporaneous accounts of the  military campaigns against the Apache Indians in the American  Southwest in this first of five volumes about the Indian Wars.  The materials include army reports, diaries of participants,  periodical articles, and newspaper accounts. All were selected  on the basis of the writers' involvement and their lack of easy  availability elsewhere. The result is a comprehensive, albeit  disjointed, account of the Apache Wars. Background information  on the people and events is adequate, and references for  additional reading are given. Lacking are maps designed to  orient the reader to the various campaigns, and some of the  editorial notes would have been more useful had they been  included in the text. These criticisms aside, this is a  well-conceived publication for expanding our understanding of  the Indian Wars, with its emphasis on hard-to-locate accounts.  For larger libraries needing information on the topic. Edward  Gibson, Langston Hughes Memorial Lib., Lincoln Univ., PACopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.