The Conquest of Apacheria (Civilization of American Indian) Review

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Dan L. Thrapp has been dead for 10 years or so, but this first big book of his on Apacheria from 1967, is still to be found in almost every footnote or bibliography of books written on the Apache. Following on the heels of his 1964 biography of Al Sieber, this is an epic book. His writings helped give birth to many of today's writers scholarship and contributions concerning this area of study. Both Dan Thrapp and The University of Oklahoma have a classic study with this book; a definite milestone of publishing for its time.
I've read this book several times, and still can remember obtaining it back in the late 1960s; there just wasn't much available in this field of study containing good, solid, comprehensive history on the Apaches. Since that time, and I attribute it directly to Dan's reseach, much material has been published not only specifically on the Apaches, but also the Arizona Territory in general.
Though this wonderful volume is now only mostly available in trade paperback, and costs several times what the original hardcover cost, it is a study still most essential for anyone's library who reads on the Apache and the Indian fighting army of those years, in that area.
The word 'classic' can today be overused, but this book truly is in any sense of the word, a major classic.
Semper Fi.


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Apacheria ran from the Colorado to the Rio Grande and beyond, from the great canyons of the North for a thousand miles into Mexico.Here, where the elusive, phantomlike Apache bands roamed, life was as harsh, cruel, and pitiless as the country itself.The conquest of Apacheria is an epic of heroism, mixed with chicanery, misunderstanding, and tragedy, on both sides.

The author's account of this important segment of Western American history includes the Walapais War, an eyewitness report on the death of the gallant lieutenant Howard B. Cushing, the famous Camp Grant Massacre, General Crook's offensive in Apacheria and his difficulties with General Miles, and the formidable Apache leaders, including Cochise, Delshay, Big Rump, Chunz, Chan-deisi, Victorio, and Geronimo.

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