The Apache Wars : The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780770435820
Description: From the Prologue...

These Apaches were of the Aravaipa band, who lived to the northeast of the Sonoita Valley. The Aravaipa would come to call the kidnapped boy Coyote, after their trickster god, because they could never decide if he was friend or foe. Years later, white men would name him Mickey Free. The boy’s kidnapping started the final struggle for Apacheria—the longest war in the history of the United States. This conflict would leave a trail of blood from the Pecos River in Texas through New Mexico and Arizona and deep into Mexico from 1861 to 1886. All sides in that conflict blamed Mickey Free for starting it. In time, the boy would come to play a pivotal role in the war, moving back and forth between the harshly conflicted worlds of the Apache and the white invader, never really accepted by either but invaluable to both.

This is Mickey Free’s story, but it is also the story of his contemporaries—both friend and foe, red and white—whose lives were shaped by the violent history of the deserts and mountains of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. It was a land where every plant bore a barb, every insect a stinger, every bird a talon, every reptile a fang—an inhospitable, deadly environment known to the outside world as Apacheria. In this bleak and unforgiving world, the one-eyed, deeply scarred Mickey Free was at home.
Table of contents: label: Copyright; label: Dedication; label: Maps; label: Prologue; label: Chapter 1
title: Apacheria; label: Chapter 2
title: Red Sleeves; label: Chapter 3
title: The Lost Boy; label: Chapter 4
title: Apache Pass; label: Chapter 5
title: Kit Carson’s Way; label: Chapter 6
title: People Of The White Mountains; label: Chapter 7
title: The Head Of Mangas Coloradas; label: Chapter 8
title: The Custom Of The Country; label: Chapter 9
title: Camp Grant; label: Chapter 10
title: Massacre; label: Chapter 11
title: Nantan Lupan; label: Photo Insert 1; label: Chapter 12
title: The Christian General; label: Chapter 13
title: Mickey Free; label: Chapter 14
title: Taglito; label: Chapter 15
title: San Carlos; label: Chapter 16
title: Geronimo; label: Chapter 17
title: Lozen’s Vision; label: Chapter 18
title: Victorio’s War; label: Chapter 19
title: Tres Castillos; label: Chapter 20
title: Fort Apache; label: Chapter 21
title: Breakout; label: Chapter 22
title: Hell’s Forty Acres; label: Chapter 23
title: Sierra Madre; label: Chapter 24
title: Turkey Creek; label: Photo Insert 2; label: Chapter 25
title: Devil’s Backbone; label: Chapter 26
title: The Wind And The Darkness; label: Chapter 27
title: Apache Kid; label: Chapter 28
title: The Last Free Apache; label: Epilogue; label: Acknowledgments; label: Notes; label: Bibliography