About the Book
They called him Mickey
Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and
both sides--the Apaches and the white invaders—blamed him for it. A
mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches
and the American soldiers, he was never trusted by either but
desperately needed by both. He was the only man Geronimo ever feared. He
played a pivotal role in this long war for the desert Southwest from
its beginning in 1861 until its end in 1890 with his pursuit of the
renegade scout, Apache Kid.
In this sprawling, monumental work, Paul Hutton unfolds over two decades of the last war for the West through the eyes of the men and women who lived it. This is Mickey Free's story, but also the story of his contemporaries: the great Apache leaders Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, and Victorio; the soldiers Kit Carson, O. O. Howard, George Crook, and Nelson Miles; the scouts and frontiersmen Al Sieber, Tom Horn, Tom Jeffords, and Texas John Slaughter; the great White Mountain scout Alchesay and the Apache female warrior Lozen; the fierce Apache warrior Geronimo; and the Apache Kid. These lives shaped the violent history of the deserts and mountains of the Southwestern borderlands--a bleak and unforgiving world where a people would make a final, bloody stand against an American war machine bent on their destruction. (Goodreads)
In this sprawling, monumental work, Paul Hutton unfolds over two decades of the last war for the West through the eyes of the men and women who lived it. This is Mickey Free's story, but also the story of his contemporaries: the great Apache leaders Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, and Victorio; the soldiers Kit Carson, O. O. Howard, George Crook, and Nelson Miles; the scouts and frontiersmen Al Sieber, Tom Horn, Tom Jeffords, and Texas John Slaughter; the great White Mountain scout Alchesay and the Apache female warrior Lozen; the fierce Apache warrior Geronimo; and the Apache Kid. These lives shaped the violent history of the deserts and mountains of the Southwestern borderlands--a bleak and unforgiving world where a people would make a final, bloody stand against an American war machine bent on their destruction. (Goodreads)
My Thoughts
This is a great book. I have really enjoyed the history and the pictures included within it's pages. There is so much history about the Apache life and who they were then and now. Some of the details are what you would expect, how they tortured people etc. But this book really packs a punch when talking about how things have changed and what all came about from the different people.Great research and really a solid book from start to finish.
Highly recommend to history lovers!
"I received this book from Blogging for Books for free in exchange for an honest review."
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