The Mescalero Apaches, Volume 51

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0806116153 ISBN13: 9780806116150 Release Date: October 1979 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Length: 352 Pages Weight: 1.00 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0" Frederick Webb Hodge remarked that the Eastern Apache tribe called the Mescaleros were "never regarded as so warlike" as the Apaches of Arizona. But the Mescaleros' history is one of hardship and oppression alternating with wars of revenge. They were friendly to the Spaniards until victimized, and friendly to Americans until they were betrayed again. For three hundred years Mescaleros fought the Spaniards and Mexicans. They fought Americans for forty more, before subsiding into lethargy and discouragement. Only since 1930 have the Mescaleros been able to make tribal progress. C. L. Sonnichsen tells the story of the Mescalero Apaches from the earliest records to the modern day, from the Indian's point of view. In early days the Mescaleros moved about freely.