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Life Among the Apaches
John C. Cremony
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Description for Life Among the Apaches
Paperback. 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 US-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed his acquaintance whom he came to know as few white Americans before him had. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 203 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
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 States-Mexican 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's account of his experiences, published in 1868, quickly became, and remains today, a basic source on Apache beliefs, tribal life, and fighting tactics. Although its original purpose was to induce more effective military suppression of the Apaches, it has ... Read more
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 States-Mexican 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's account of his experiences, published in 1868, quickly became, and remains today, a basic source on Apache beliefs, tribal life, and fighting tactics. Although its original purpose was to induce more effective military suppression of the Apaches, it has ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803263123
SKU
V9780803263123
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Reviews for Life Among the Apaches
"Like most frontiersmen of the mid-nineteenth century, John C. Cremony looked on Indians as unredeemable savages. But he knew Apaches first hand and was a keen and highly literate observer. For all its ethnocentrism, his narrative remains unsurpassed for accuracy and vivid detail among contemporary views of the Apaches. In the literature of the American West Life among the Apaches ... Read more