Eve Ball held bachelors and master?s degree and an
honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Along-time resident of Ruidoso, on the edge of the Mescalero Apache
reservation in southern New Mexico, she conducted her interviews
and her research among the Apaches over three decades. Nora
Henn and Lynda A. Sanchez, friends who
help Ball prepare her manuscript, have since pursued Indian studies
and the history of Lincoln County, New Mexico.
Dan Thrapp, who was a graduate of the University of Missouri
School of Journalism, was a foreign correspondent for the United
Press in Argentina, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom and, for
a number of years, an editor for the Los Angeles Times. He wrote
extensively on the West. He books include Victorio and the Mimbres
Apaches, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
A masterpiece of oral history…The [Apache] survivors tell a
gripping story of danger and hardship - war in the Southwest, exile
in Florida and Alabama, prisoner-of-war status in Oklahoma and ,
finally, the return home. Not only do we get a fresh view - the
Indian view - of historical events, we come to understand and
respect the Apache as a people."" - Publishers Weekly
""Deeply touching are the sensitive discussions of Apache family
life, rarely ever disclosed to outsiders. The book is well
documented, appointed, edited and indexed, and the many
photographers are well chosen."" - Arizona Highways
""An extraordinarily valuable contribution to the history of the
Apaches and to our knowledge of them. But for Eve Ball, these
sincere and graphic accounts of the Apaches' side of the story
would have been lost forever."" - Donald E. Worcester, Arizona and
the West
""This is a book that may be enjoyed and appreciated by the general
reader while providing the serious scholar with insight into Apache
thinking and emotions and a much broader comprehension of the years
conflict than has previously been available…. Indeh is a worthwhile
addition to anyone's southwestern library."" - Journal of Arizona
History
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