Independent scholar Sweeney first became fascinated by the Apaches some 50 years ago, when, during high school, he first read a biographical account of Cochise; he is the author of two prior historica
Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years. During the last years of Mangas’s life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led an assault against white settlement in Apacheria tha
When it acquired New Mexico and Arizona, the United States inherited the territory of a people who had been a thorn in side of Mexico since 1821 and Spain before that. Known collectively as Apaches, t
A Chiricahua Apache of the Chokonen band, Cochise (c. 18101874) was one of the most celebrated Indian leaders of his time, battling both American intrusions and Mexican troops in the turbulent border
