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Life Among the Apaches: The Classic History of Native American Life on the Plains
John C. Cremony
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Description for Life Among the Apaches: The Classic History of Native American Life on the Plains
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 398.
One of the original seventeenth-century historical accounts of the Apaches and the southwestern American Indians.
John C. Cremony’s first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett’s boundary commission surveying the United StatesMexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance, particularly with the Apaches, whom he came to know as few white Americans before him had. Cremony was the first white man to become fluent in the Apache language, and he published the first dictionary of their language as a ... Read more
One of the original seventeenth-century historical accounts of the Apaches and the southwestern American Indians.
John C. Cremony’s first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett’s boundary commission surveying the United StatesMexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance, particularly with the Apaches, whom he came to know as few white Americans before him had. Cremony was the first white man to become fluent in the Apache language, and he published the first dictionary of their language as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781629143705
SKU
V9781629143705
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About John C. Cremony
John C. Cremony was an American newspaperman who also served as a lieutenant in the Regiment California Volunteer Cavalry. He fought in the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, and the Apache Wars. He died in 1872 in San Francisco, California.
Reviews for Life Among the Apaches: The Classic History of Native American Life on the Plains
In the literature of the American West Life Among the Apaches endures as a classic.” Robert M. Utley In the literature of the American West Life Among the Apaches endures as a classic.” Robert M. Utley