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This is the first 1,000 characters of 924 words (3.7 pages) in the essay titled cheifs of the apache For generations, the Apaches resisted white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest (presently New Mexico and Arizona) by both Spaniards and North Americans. In 1848, when gold was discovered in California, the Apache were threatened by the incursions of white fortune-seekers. In an incident at a mining camp, Mangas Coloradas, chief of the Mimbreņo Chiricahua, was whipped, an act that resulted in his life-long enmity against white men. Though his nephew Cochise had long resisted fighting Americans, in 1861 he too was betrayed by white men and turned against them. Together, Mangas Coloradas and Cochise ravaged much southern New Mexico and Arizona, until Mangas was wounded in 1862, captured and killed in January 1863, allegedly while trying to escape from, Fort McLane, New Mexico.Upon the death of his uncle, Cochise became principal chief of the Apaches. Cochise worked as a woodcutter at the Apache Pass stagecoach station of the Butterfield Overland line until 1861, when a raiding party drove off cattle belonging to a white rancher and abducted the child of a ranch hand. An inexperienced Army officer, Lt. George Bascom, arrived and ordered Cochise and five other chiefs to appear for questioning. When the Apaches denied their guilt, Bascom had the Indians seized and arrested. Soldiers killed one on the spot, but Cochise escaped by cutting through the side of a tent, while suffering three bullets wounds (How did he get the three bullets in his body?). After Cochise abd... |
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Keywords: mangas coloradas, cochise, new mexico, apaches, apache pass, bascom, 1861, enmity, army, white men, abducted, bullets, principal chief, death of his uncle, stagecoach station, fortune seekers, california volunteers, cheifs, mimbre, mining camp