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Son of Vengeance - Searching for the Legendary Apache Rafael (Hardcover)
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Son of Vengeance - Searching for the Legendary Apache Rafael (Hardcover)
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Since the early 1800s, the violent exploits of "El Indio" Rafael
through the settlements of northern New Spain have become the stuff
of myth and legend. For some, the fabled Apache was a hero, an
indigenous Robin Hood who fought oppressive Spaniards to help the
dispossessed and downtrodden. For others, he was little more than a
merciless killer. In Son of Vengeance, Bradley Folsom sets out to
find the real Rafael-to extract the true story from the scant
historical record and superabundance of speculation. What he
uncovers is that many of the legends about Rafael were true: he was
both daring and one of the most prolific serial killers in North
American history. Rafael was born into an Apache family, but from a
young age he was raised by Spanish chaplain Rafael Nevares, who
took his indigenous prodigy out on patrol with local soldiers and
taught him to speak Spanish and practice Catholicism. Rafael's
forced assimilation heightened the tension between his ancestry and
the Hispanic environment and spurred him to violence. Sifting
Spanish military and government documents, church records,
contemporary newspapers, and eyewitness accounts, Folsom reveals a
three-dimensional historical figure whose brutality was matched and
abetted by great ingenuity-and by a deep, long-standing hostility
between the Spanish and the Apaches of New Spain. The early years
of tutelage under Nevares also, perversely, contributed to Rafael's
brutal success. Rather than leading to a life of Christian piety
and Spanish loyalty, the knowledge Rafael gained from his mentor
served instead to help him evade his pursuers and the law, at least
for a time. In Son of Vengeance, we see the real El Indio Rafael
for the first time-the man behind the cultural myth, and the
historical forces and circumstances that framed and propelled his
feats of violence.
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