The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars by Terry Mort
English | November 15th, 2021 | ISBN: 9781639361342 | 399 pages | True EPUB | 3.85 MB
In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. What followed would ignite a Southwestern frontier war between the Chiricahuas and the US Army that would last twenty-five years. In the days following the initial melee, innocent passersby would be taken as hostages on both sides, and almost all of them would be brutally slaughtered. Thousands of lives would be lost, the economies of Arizona and New Mexico would be devastated, and in the end, the Chiricahua way of life would essentially cease to exist.