Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPrologue - The Adventure BeginsChapter One - Mismanagement and the Last OutbreakChapter Two - The Apache IndiansChapter Three - Military CommandantChapter Four - Civil ProblemsChapter Five - Gatewood and GeronimoEpilogue - Slow Fade to OblivionAppendix - Old Black Joe's DevilNotesBibliographyIndex

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First-hand experience of a white commander of Apache scouts in the last Apache war.

About the Author

Louis Kraft, an independent scholar, is the author of Gatewood & Geronimo and Custer and the Cheyenne: George Armstrong Custer’s Winter Campaign on the Southern Plains.

Reviews

“The memoir is a fascinating read. To fill in missing details, Kraft has provided excellent commentary and footnotes. Readers will find invaluable Lt. Gatewood’s accounts of his service as chief of Apache scouts, commander of the White Mountain Apache Reservation, and later aide-de-camp to General Nelson Miles. . . . A welcome addition to the literature of the frontier army and Apache relations. . . . The book should provide students of military history and Native American studies a valuable primary source and fascinating chronicle of Apache life in the early reservation era.”—Mark Edwin Miller, Western Historical Quarterly

"A treasture trove of information on the Apache Wars."—New Mexico Magazine

“Gatewood was an excellent writer with narrative skill and his memoir makes interesting reading.”—Roundup Magazine

“This is a haunting story. . . . A good one to add to your Apache Wars reading collection.”—Chronicle of the Old West

"Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir is a unique and welcome supplement to American military history or Native American studies shelves."—James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review