The Apache: War to the Knife

This is the third episode in the series over the Apache Indians in the American Southwest. This episode covers the time period between the beginning of the 19th Century and up to the middle of the American Civil War in 1863. The episode focuses around the life of one of the greatest Apache war chiefs to have ever lived: Mangas Coloradas. During his life there were a plethora of changes for the Apache throughout the American Southwest. In the beginning of the 1800s the Spanish became the Mexicans and the war between the two groups heated up to annihilation levels at the same time the Americans entered the region.

Mangas Coloradas was a Chiricahua Apache and the bulk of this episode covers that group, but the White Mountain, Jicarilla, and Western Apache also make an appearance. The 70 years of Mangas’ life is filled with massacres, treaties, international wars, chicanery, Kit Carson and other Mountain Men, Civil Wars, Santa Anna, the O’odham, Geronimo, Cochise, Joh, and so much more.

At 4 hours and 59 minutes it is my longest episode yet but it is packed with fun, exciting, heartbreaking, and incredibly interesting stories and history.

Mimbres Valley

Mimbres Valley

Mogollon Mountains

Camping on the Gila River

Gila River in Mogollon Mountains

Mogollon Mountains

Mogollon Mountains

Mogollon Mountains

Mogollon Mountains

Black Mountains

Mogollon Mountains

Mogollon Mountains

Dos Cabezas Near Apache Pass

White Mountain Near Ruidoso

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

Chiricahua Mountains

White Mountain Apache Ga'an

Dos Cabezos & the Late Great Echo

Tucson Wilderness

Tucson Wilderness

Tucson Wilderness

Tucson Wilderness

Tucson Wilderness

Tucson Wilderness

Tucson Wilderness

Tucson Wilderness

Tucson Wilderness

Tucson Wilderness

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Big Bend Wilderness of Mescalero

Selected Sources:

The Apache Indians by Frank C Lockwood

Mangas Coloradas: Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches by Edwin R Sweeney

Apache Chronicle: The Story of the People by John Upton Terrell

Once They Moved Like The Wind by David Roberts

The Bears Ears by David Roberts

The Navajo by Clyde Kluckhorhn & Dorothea Leighton

Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor

Frontiers: A Short History of the American West by Robert V Hine & John Mack Faragher

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

Western Apache Language and Culture by Keith H Basso

The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1890 by Robert M Utley

A Portal to Paradise by Alden Hayes

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

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/250-1703/trenches/5293-trenches-arizona-hopi-montezuma-castle

https://frontierpartisans.com/25352/return-to-apacheria/