FROM COCHISE TO GERONIMO BY EDWIN SWEENEY

From Cochise to Geronimo: The Chiricahua Apaches 1874- 1886 by Edwin R. Sweeney "In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the US government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer a definitive history of the turbulent period between Cochise's death and Geronimo's surrender in 1886. Sweeney shows that the cataclysmic events of the 1870's and 1880's stemmed in part from seeds of distrust sown by the American military in 1861 and 1863. In 1876 and 1877, the US government proposed moving the Chiricahuas form their ancestral homelands in New Mexico and Arizona to the San Carlos Reservation. From Cochise to Geronimo details the Chiricahuas' ordeal in maintaining their identity desptie forced relocations, disease epidemics, sustained warfare, and confinement. Resigned to accommodation with Americans but intent on preserving their culture, they were determined to survive as a people." back cover Soft cover, 706 pages