Title: Mangas Coloradas, chief of the Chiricahua Apaches
First published: 1998
Description: Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years. During the last years of Mangas's life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led an assault against white settlement in Apacheria that made the two of them the most feared warriors in the Southwest. In this first full-length biography of the legendary chief, Ed Sweeney vividly portrays the Apache culture in which Mangas rose to power and the conflict with Americans that led to his brutal death.
Subjects: Chiricahua Indians, Biography, History, Mangas colorado, apache chief, 1797-1863, Indians of north america, history
People: Mangas Coloradas Apache chief (d. 1863?)
LC classification: E99.C68 M357 1998