From Fort Marion to Fort Sill

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From Fort Marion to Fort Sill

A Documentary History of the Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War, 1886-1913

Edited and annotated by Alicia Delgadillo, with Miriam A. Perrett

456 pages
8 color plates, 62 illustrations, 3 maps

Hardcover

June 2013

978-0-8032-4379-8

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"This book deserves a close read and a place on every Arizona historian's bookshelf."—Victoria Smith, Journal of Arizona History

About the Book

From 1886 to 1913, hundreds of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and children lived and died as prisoners of war in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Their names, faces, and lives have long been forgotten by history, and for nearly one hundred years these individuals have been nothing more than statistics in the history of the United States’ tumultuous war against the Chiricahua Apache.

Based on extensive archival research, From Fort Marion to Fort Sill offers long-overdue documentation of the lives and fate of many of these people. This outstanding reference work provides individual biographies for hundreds of the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war, including those originally classified as POWs in 1886, infants who lived only a few days, children removed from families and sent to Indian boarding schools, and second-generation POWs who lived well into the twenty-first century. Their biographies are often poignant and revealing, and more than 60 previously unpublished photographs give a further glimpse of their humanity.

This masterful documentary work, based on the unpublished research notes of former Fort Sill historian Gillett Griswold, at last brings to light the lives and experiences of hundreds of Chiricahua Apaches whose story has gone untold for too long.

Author Bio

Alicia Delgadillo is a former senior program coordinator of the Native American Research and Training Center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Miriam A. Perrett is a former systems librarian at the University of Wales, Lampeter (now the University of Wales Trinity Saint David).

Praise

"This book deserves a close read and a place on every Arizona historian's bookshelf."—Victoria Smith, Journal of Arizona History

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
W
Y
Z
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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