The lives of Herman Lehmann, who was taken by the Indians as a boy from his Texas home and adopted by them; his career as an authentic Wild Warrior with the Apache and Comanche tribes; his subsequent restoration to the bosom of his family and the difficulties and confusions faced in adjusting his savage training to a civilized society; his experiences carrying him from the time of the Scalping Knife to the very threshold of our Atomic Age; together with verifying accounts by members of his family and others who shared some of those extraordinary and historical events. 160 pages. View More...
Grenville Goodwin was one of the leading field anthropologists during a crucial period in American Indian research—the 1930s. His letters from the field provide original source material on Western Apache beliefs and customs. They also reveal the attitudes and methods which made him so effective in his work. A dedicated and thorough ethnographer, Goodwin became familiar with every aspect of Western Apache culture. 103 pages, indexed. View More...
In the early 1860's while most of the eastern states were concerned with the Civil War, a terrible chapter in American history was beginning in the western territories of Arizona and New Mexico. These exhibits tell the story of what happened to thousands of Navajo and Mescalero Apache people at a place called Bosque Redondo. It is a story of conflict, suffering, and death. It is also a story of strength, survival, and new beginnings. View More...
Relates the history of the Apache Indians and of the Apache Wars of the 1800's. The Apache Wars ended with the surrender of their leader Geronimo. The parts played by Apaches Geronimo and Cochise, United States Army officers, Oliver Otis Howard, George Crook, and Nelson A. Miles, and many others are given in the narrative. Today the ruins of Fort Bowie, Arizona, stand as a monument commemorating the struggle of the Indians to maintain their way of life in the face of the white man's determination to conquer the wilderness. 88 pages. View More...
Men from Lincoln County, New Mexico, and the Mescalero Apache Tribe That Died in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, U.S. Military Deaths (1980-2000) and the Iraq War.
