"Map of Apacheria." Topic
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Tango01  | 18 Jan 2013 12:56 p.m. PST |
Maybe old, but a quite interesting link and map.
Think it's useful for wargaming the Old West. PDF link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
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| religon | 18 Jan 2013 3:26 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 19 Jan 2013 10:28 a.m. PST |
Glad you had enjoy it my friend!. Amicalement
Armand |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 19 Jan 2013 11:03 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 19 Jan 2013 10:46 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. Amicalement
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| Nasty Canasta | 20 Jan 2013 4:49 p.m. PST |
I was employed at Fort Bowie NHS for a number of years. Its a great account however there is no known photo of Cochise simply for the fact that he was so elusive and in hiding even when Tom Jeffords and General O.O. Howard met with him in the Dragoon Mountains in 1872. He's dead by June 1874 and only Jeffords knew of his burial site. To my knowledge no photographer was ever in the field either at Fort Bowie or on the Chiricahua Reservation during the time of its existence, and certainly Cochise would not have been posed for a photograph, especially in an indoor setting. The alleged photo of Victorio is actually a Yavapais taken in the mid-1880's. Victorio surrendered in late 1876 and he and his band were moved to the San Carlos Reservation in east-central Arizona on the Gila River. He hates it their and eventually ends up on the Ojo Caliente reserve in New Mexico. After he hears rumors to move his Chiricahuas back to San Carlos he jumps for the final time in late August 1879 starting Victorio's War. The Mexican Army finally eliminated him at Tres Castillos in October 1880. Most Americans of the time demanded a "face" to the people that were making the headlines, and the latter two named Apaches were no exception. Newspapermen had no problems using any photo they could lay their collective hands on and drop any name with it. This is the case with both Cochise and Victorio, and they have been repeated so long that they are no longer questioned by many. |
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