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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-13
9781472110923
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202325790
Product Key Features
Author
Terry Mort
Publication Name
The Wrath of Cochise: the Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
196mm
Item Width
132mm
Item Weight
255g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Terry Mort
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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