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Originally Posted by BelleZora
At the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum I was educated about how the U.S. Army made an implacable enemy of the great Apache leader Cochise in an incident that reminded me of the Marias Massacre. It was certainly another case of the army's failure to distinguish between the guilty and the innocent, or even to care to do so.
Cochise was held in such awe that the county formed in 1881 was named for him.
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I have always been interested in the history of Native Americans, especially those from the Southwest. This is due to the fact that when I was young I was very close to a great uncle on my mother's side that was born in Gallup, NM in 1890 and grew up when that area was still almost Old West frontier like. Most of his years in school prior to high school he rode a horse the 10 miles to and from his school. He later served in WWI and after became a banker in San Francisco, but still owned many Native American artifacts that as well as a large number of books on the subject. I still have a beautiful picture book about the Anasazi cave dwellings in the Four Corners area. Anyway another great Apache leader/warrior was
Nana who though not as well known as Cochise, Geronimo, or Mangas Coloradas rivaled these in the battle with whites.