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Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir

Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir

Gatewood, Charles B.
Kraft, Louis

Hardcover

Military BiographiesNative American History19th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 0803227728
ISBN13: 9780803227729
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 1 2005
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.18
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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 Louis Kraft presents Gatewood's previously unpublished account, punctuating it with an introduction, additional text that fills in the gaps in Gatewood's narrative, detailed notes, and an epilogue.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.

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