| Conquest of Apacheria Revised Edition Contributor(s): Thrapp, Dan L. (Author), Thrapp, Daniel L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806112867 ISBN-13: 9780806112862 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1967 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - General - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 978 |
| Series: Civilization of American Indian S |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.43" W x 8.31" (1.12 lbs) 422 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Arizona - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "In this important work, Mr. Thrapp has brought to the Apache Indian Wars of the Southwest the detailed attention they have long deserved. As a survey and synthesis of the Apache campaigns after the Civil War, The Conquest of Apacheria is a first-rate job." - The Journal of Arizona History. "A summary of the Apache Wars that should stand the test of historical judgement. The book is excellent." -Odie B. Faulk. 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. Dan Thrapp, who was a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, was a foreign correspondent for the United Press in Argentina, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom and, for a number of years, an editor for the Los Angeles Times. He wrote extensively on the West. He books include Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thrapp, Dan L.: - Dan Thrapp, who was a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, was a foreign correspondent for the United Press in Argentina, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom and, for a number of years, an editor for the Los Angeles Times. He wrote extensively on the West. He books include Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press. |