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The Wrath of Cochise - The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars (Paperback)
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The Wrath of Cochise - The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars (Paperback)
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Loot Price R424
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In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John
Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and
reported the incident to patrols at Fort Buchanan, blaming a band
of Chiricahuas led by the infamous warrior Cochise. Though Ward had
no proof that Cochise had kidnapped his son, Lt. George Bascom
organized a patrol and met with the Apache leader, who, not
suspecting anything was amiss, had brought along his wife, his
brother, and two sons. Despite Cochise's assertions that he had not
taken the boy and his offer to help in the search, Bascom
immediately took Cochise's family hostage and demanded the return
of the boy. An incensed Cochise escaped the meeting tent amidst
flying bullets and vowed revenge.What followed that precipitous
encounter 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-Apache,
white, and Mexican-would be taken as hostages on both sides, and
almost all of them would be brutally slaughtered. Cochise would
lead his people valiantly for ten years of the decades-long
war.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.In a gripping narrative
that often reads like an old-fashioned Western novel, Terry Mort
explores the collision of these two radically different cultures in
a masterful account of one of the bloodiest conflicts in American
frontier history.
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