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General Wars

Arizona Forts
http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/forts.html

An unwritten history; a record from the exciting days of early Arizona.
F811 .W74 1966

A history of the First Arizona Volunteer Infantry, 1865-1866 / by Lonnie Edward Underhill.
E83.866 .U55x

Massacre on the Gila : an account of the last major battle between American Indians : with reflections on the origin of war / Clifton B. Kroeber and Bernard L. Fontana.
E83.8565 .K76 1986

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Injustices against the Indians

The Long Walk

The Bascom Affair

The Phoenix Indian School

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Hualapai Wars

Soldiers fought and subdued the Hualapai Indians because they were not yet trained enough to master the Apache and Yavapai fighting style. The Pai peoples are located between the Grand Canyon and Bill Williams River. The war broke out in April of 1865 when Pai leader Anasa was murdered by drunken settlers in the area. They cut off the route from Prescott to the Colorado River ports. It was not until W.H. Hardy negotiated a peace agreement at Beale Springs did the raids and the fighting subside. However, the agreement lasted only nine months. It was broken when Chief Wauba Yuma was murdered after a dispute with the Walker party over the treaty. Raids by the Pai indians began in full force, raiding white mining camps and settlers. The Calvary from Fort Mohave responded by attacking Pai rancherias and burning them. The Army also used the Mohave indians against the Pai. A notable Pai warrior was Sherum, he was known for his tenacity as a warrior. This war lasted until December 1868. The Pai began to surrender as a result of whooping cough and dystentry weakening their ranks, they were led by Under Chief Leve Leve of the Yavapai peoples. The warrior Sherum also later surrendered thus ending the Hualapi Wars.

Websites

Hualapai Tribe

Books

Camp Beale's Springs and the Hualapai Indians / by Dennis G. Casebier.
E99 .H75 C3x

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Navajo Wars

The Navajo Indian Tribe

Kit Carson and the Navajos

The Long Walk to Bosque Redondo

Manuelito: Navajo Chief by Harrison Lapahie Jr.
http://www.lapahie.com/Manuelito.cfm

The Indians : account of Gen'l Howard's mission to the Apaches and Navajos.
E99 .A6 H68x

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Yuma Indian Wars

As the Colorado River became an increasingly critical crossing point for Spanish explorers, missionaries, and settlers, so were the Yuman upset by their imposing nature. The cattle would crush their crops and the priests would preach to the how to live. Problems like these would lead to great anger and frustration and result in the massacre of the Spanish on July 17, 1781. This massacre would include the death of Father Garces, the famous spanish missionary. This even cut off Spanish exploration to California from Arizona and prevented settlers from coming into the area until Anglos settled into the area in the mid-19th Century.

The Yumans prospered in the area, eventually helping white settlers and gold seekers across the Colorado River into California and making a profit at it. They began to resent the sheer number of whites who were entering the area, but still maintained benefits from their journeys. However, whites soon became jealous of their monopoly on the river crossings. Scalphunter John Joel Glanton led a group that tried to kill off the Yuman and monopolize the river crossings around 1850. Their attempts failed and most of the scalphunters were killed. Eventually, Fort Yuma was reestablished in the area by Major Samuel Heintzelman in February 1852, this would take away the river crossing business for the Yuma. The Fort helped establish the Colorado Ferry Company as it began operation there soon after the reestablishment of the Fort. The last battle the Yumans fought was in 1857. They, along with their allies the Mohaves, attacked the Maricopa indians at the other side of the river. The Maricopas, counterattacking on horseback, killed over 100 Yumans, thus weakening their immediate threat in the area.

Websites

Yuma Indians

Books

Warriors of the Colorado; the Yumas of the Quechan Nation and their neighbors, by Jack D. Forbes
E99 .Y94 F59

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Apache Wars

Websites

The Apache Tribe

Apache Wars
http://www.geocities.com/~zybt/awars.htm
http://www.impurplehawk.com/warriors.html
 

Books

Apache wars : an illustrated battle history / E. Lisle Reedstrom.
E99 .A6 R36 1990

Apache Indian scouts; service in Arizona and Mexico against renegade Apaches, individuals in Crook's campaigns, Cibicu fight, Apache Kid troubles, perishing punitive expedition, service record data of last of scouts, Army regulations, circulars, orders, correspondence, miscellaneous local historical incidents, by H. B. (Dave) Wharfield.
E83.866 .W5

The conquest of Apacheria, by Dan L. Thrapp.
E99 .A6 T47

General Crook and the Apache wars, by Charles F. Lummis. Edited by Turbesé Lummis Fiske. Foreword by Dudley Gordon. Illus. by Don Perceval
E83.866 .C942 L9

Tales of Apache warfare; true stories of massacres, fights and raids in Arizona and New Mexico, by James M. Barney.
E99 .A6 B17

The Indians : account of Gen'l Howard's mission to the Apaches and Navajos.
E99 .A6 H68x

Apache agent; the story of John P. Clum.
E99 .A6 H68x

The Apache frontier; Jacobo Ugarte and Spanish-Indian relations in northern New Spain, 1769-1791 [by] Max L. Moorhead
F1231 .U33 M6

The Apache wars / [by] Sunnyside High School History Club ; Judy Goeltzenleuchter, editor.
E99.A6 S87x

General Crook and the Apache wars, by Charles F. Lummis. Edited by Turbesé Lummis Fiske. Foreword by Dudley Gordon. Illus. by Don Perceval
E83.866 .C942 L9

General George Crook, his autobiography. Edited and annotated by Martin F. Schmitt.
E83.866 .C93 1960

Apache Indian scouts; service in Arizona and Mexico against renegade Apaches, individuals in Crook's campaigns, Cibicu fight, Apache Kid troubles, perishing punitive expedition, service record data of last of scouts, Army regulations, circulars, orders, correspondence, miscellaneous local historical incidents, by H. B. (Dave) Wharfield.
 E83.866 .W5

A clash of cultures : Fort Bowie and the Chiricahua Apaches / by Robert M. Utley.
E99 .A6 U89

Commanders and chiefs : a brief history of Fort McDowell, Arizona (1865-1890), its officers and men and the Indians they were ordered to subdue / by Elaine Waterstrat.
F817.F6 W38x 1993

The Fish manuscript.
F811 .F5x 1962

John Spring's Arizona / edited by A. M. Gustafson.
F811 .S77

Military history of the Spanish-American Southwest : a seminar
F786 .M5x

Tales of Apache warfare; true stories of massacres, fights and raids in Arizona and New Mexico, by James M. Barney.
E99 .A6 B17

They never surrendered : Bronco Apaches of the Sierra Madres, 1890-1935 / by Douglas V. Meed.
E99.A6 M435x 1993

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Apache Leaders

Apache Warriors
http://www.geocities.com/~zybt/warriors.htm


Geronimo

Websites

Geronimo's Campaign as told by the 4rth U.S. Calvary at Fort Huachuca
http://huachuca-usaic.army.mil/GARRISON/BTROOP/indian.html

Books

Geronimo : his own story / edited by S. M. Barrett ; newly edited with an introd. and notes by Frederick W. Turner, III.
E99.A6 G3 1970

Chasing Geronimo; the journal of Leonard Wood, May-September,1886. Edited, with introd. and epilogue by Jack C. Lane.
E83.88 .W6

Geronimo; a biography [by] Alexander B. Adams.
 E99 .A6 G14 1971

The Geronimo campaign [by] Odie B. Faulk.
E90 .G4 F3

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to resolution of February 11, 1887, correspondence with General Miles relative to the surrender of Geronimo.
E99 .A6 U57

Scenes in Geronimo's camp; the Apache outlaw and murderer, takenbefore the surrender to Gen. Cook [i.e. Crook] March 27, 1886, in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico
E99 .A6 G2

Once they moved like the wind : Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache wars / David Roberts.
E99.A6 C575 1993


Victorio

http://www.zianet.com/snm/victorio.htm

Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches [by] Dan L. Thrapp.
E99 .A6 T48x
 


Cochise

Cochise: Apache Warrior
http://members.aol.com/circofire/cochise.html

Once they moved like the wind : Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache wars / David Roberts.
E99.A6 C575 1993

Apache warfare under the leadership of Cochise / by Barbara Ann Tyler.
E99.A6 T95x
 

Juh

Juh: an incredible Indian, by Dan L. Thrapp.
F786 .S6 no.39 1973
 


Mangas Coloradas

Mangas Coloradas
http://www.impurplehawk.com/mangas.html

Mangas Coloradas, chief of the Chiricahua Apaches / Edwin R. Sweeney.
E99.C68 M357 1998
 

Naitche

Apache Men
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/maria/Apachemen.html
 

Lozen (f)

Women Spirit by Julia White (Lozen - Chiricahua Apache)
http://www.meyna.com/lozen.html

Warrior woman : the story of Lozen, Apache warrior and shaman / Peter Aleshire.
E99.C68 L693 2001

Apache women warriors / Kimberly Moore Buchanan.
F786 .S6 no.79

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