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Author Gatewood, Charles B

Title Lt. Charles Gatewood & his Apache wars memoir / Charles B. Gatewood ; edited and with additional text by Louis Kraft
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 283 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
Contents Prologue: The adventure begins -- Mismanagement and the last outbreak -- The Apache Indians -- Military commandant -- Civil problems -- Gatewood and Geronimo -- Epilogue: Slow fade to oblivion
Summary Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853-1896), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures. It was this connection that Gatewood formed with the Indians, and with Geronimo and Naiche in particular, that led to his involvement in the last Apache war and his work for Indian rights. Realizing that he had more experience dealing with Native peoples than other lieutenants serving on the frontier, Gatewood decided to record his experiences. Although he died before he completed his project, the work he left behind remains an important firsthand account of his life as a commander of Apache scouts and as a military commandant of the White Mountain Indian Reservation. Louis Kraft presents Gatewood's previously unpublished account, punctuating it with an introduction, additional text that fills in the gaps in Gatewood's narrative, detailed notes, and an epilogue. Kraft's work offers new background information on Gatewood and discusses the manuscript as a fresh account of how Gatewood viewed the events in which he took part
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-268) and index
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Subject Gatewood, Charles B. -- Diaries
Geronimo, 1829-1909.
SUBJECT Geronimo, 1829-1909
Gatewood, Charles B. -- Diaries
Gatewood, Charles B. fast
Geronimo, 1829-1909 fast
Subject United States. Army. Cavalry, 6th.
SUBJECT United States. Army. Cavalry, 6th fast
Subject Apache Indians -- Wars, 1883-1886.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Apache Indians
Genre/Form Diaries
Form Electronic book
Author Kraft, Louis, 1947-
ISBN 080325010X
9780803250109
1280466138
9781280466137
9786610466139
6610466130
0803227728
9780803227729
Other Titles Lt. Charles Gatewood and his Apache wars memoir
Lieutenant Charles Gatewood & his Apache wars memoir