The Apache: Fear & Hate
This is the fifth episode in the series over the Apache Indians in the American Southwest. This episode covers the aftermath of the Camp Grant Massacre and encompasses the years 1870 to 1874. It also continues the story of the most feared Apache warrior chief to have ever lived in the eyes of the Americans: Cochise.
The episode introduces important men of history in the region like General Crook, General Howard, Captain Tom Jeffords, Cochise’s sons Taza and Naiche, the Tonto Apache chief Red Ant (Delshay), the various Apache Scout leaders like Al Sieber, and countless others. Lieutenant Bourke, Geronimo, Merejildo Grijalva, and Mickey Free the kidnapped boy who started this long war also make heavy return appearances. The massive offensive against the Apaches and Yavapai Indians during the winter of 1872 to 1873 is discussed in detail as well as the flip side of the Indians Wars: President Grant’s “Peace Policy”.
Battles ensue, bureaucrats meddle, reservations are established, massacres like the Skeleton Cave Massacre blight the land, but by the end of the episode peace will reign, however briefly, on Apacheria.
Selected Sources:
The Apache Indians by Frank C Lockwood
Apache Chronicle: The Story of the People by John Upton Terrell
Once They Moved Like The Wind by David Roberts
From Cochise to Geronimo: The Chiricahua Apaches 1874-1886 by Edwin R Sweeney
Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History by Paul Andrew Hutton
Tom Jeffords by Doug Hocking