In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols at Fort Buchanan, blaming a band of Chiricahuas led by the infamous warrior Cochise. What followed that precipitous encounter would ignite a Southwestern frontier war between the Chiricahuas and the US Army that would last twenty-five years. In the days following the initial melee, innocent passersby -- Apache, white, and Mexican -- would be taken as hostages on both sides, and almost all of them would be brutally slaughtered.
hid | mid | miid | nid | wid | location_code | location | barcode | callnum | dewey | created | updated |
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1467544 | 5102290 | 2199 | 233570 | 340968 | WEHS | 491 | WEHS902598 | 970.004 MOR | 970 | 1581465224 | 1708963493 |