Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Short Survey Of The U. S. And Apache In The Southwest, 1846-1886
    A Short Survey Of The U. S. And Apache In The Southwest, 1846-1886
    A Short Survey Of The U. S. And Apache In The Southwest, 1846-1886
    Ebook44 pages42 minutes

    A Short Survey Of The U. S. And Apache In The Southwest, 1846-1886

    By Bertha Blount

    3/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    "A Short Survey Of The U. S. And Apache In The Southwest, 1846-1886" by Bertha Blount covers the high points of the bloody relations between U. S. Government policy and the Apache Indians in the 19th-Century.

    Blount shows the many treacherous moves by the U. S in dealing with the Apache, from the time the territory was acquired from Mexico at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War, to the final suppression of Apache resistance with the capture of Geronimo in 1885.

    Her account of U. S.-Apache relations is both sad and riveting. She shows how, in the beginning, the Apache were loyal allies of the U. S. against the common Mexican enemy, whom the Apache had no cause to love. The Mexican Government, if anything, had been as treacherous as any example in history of white-red dealings. The Apache soon discovered than their pact of mutual support with the U. S. was a pact with the devil.

    A must read for those interested in U. S.-Apache historical relations as well as those seeking an understanding of U. S. Government policy toward the Indians of the Southwest in the period 1845-1890.

    A short E-Book of approximately 7,700 words or approximately 25+ pages at 300 words per page.

    NOTE: This book has been scanned then OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has been applied to turn the scanned page images back into editable text. Then every effort has been made to correct typos, spelling, and to eliminate stray marks picked up by the OCR program. The original and/or extra period images, if any, were then placed in the appropriate place and, finally, the file was formatted for the e-book criteria of the site. This means that the text CAN be re-sized, searches performed, & bookmarks added, unlike some other e-books that are only scanned---errors, stray marks, and all.

    We have added an Interactive Table of Contents & an Interactive List of Illustrations if any were present in the original. This means that the reader can click on the links in the Table of Contents or the List of Illustrations & be instantly transported to that chapter or illustration.

    Our aim is to provide the reader AND the collector with long out-of-print (OOP) classic books at realistic prices. If you load your mobile device(s) with our books, not only will you have fingertip access to a large library of antiquarian and out-of-print material at reasonable prices, but you can mark them up electronically & always have them for immediate reference without worrying about damage or loss to expensive bound copies.

    We will be adding to our titles regularly, look for our offerings on your favorite e-book site.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaine Book Barn Publishing
    Release dateAug 12, 2013
    ISBN9781501444883
    A Short Survey Of The U. S. And Apache In The Southwest, 1846-1886

    Related to A Short Survey Of The U. S. And Apache In The Southwest, 1846-1886

    Related ebooks

    Native American History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Spring By Nature

      Mar 1, 2021

      Spring By Nature
      9 min read

    • Article

      Yes You Can

      Feb 14, 2024

      OFTEN, the writers who could most use the time, space, and support that retreats afford are the ones least able to access them. You may already know firsthand the ways that cost, the realities of other time commitments, accessibility, or disenfranchi

      3 min read

    • Article

      Why We Write

      Feb 7, 2018

      STEPHANIE STOKES OLIVER has spent her career in magazine and book publishing. Formerly the fashion and beauty merchandising editor at Glamour, founding editor in chief of Heart & Soul, and editor in chief of Essence.com, she most recently served as v

      7 min read

    • Article

      1960s

      Mar 6, 2020

      1960s
      8 min read

    • Article

      This One Sky Day

      Apr 21, 2021

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 468 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Leone Ross Publisher Faber This is the sort of book that gets reviewers wheeling out words like “smorgasbord” or “cornucopia”. We’ll go with “kaleidoscopic”. This One Sky Day is a feast for the sens

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Genre Of Resistance

      Aug 15, 2018

      Mine (University of New Mexico Press, March), a collection of personal, lyric, and investigative essays about ownership—the corporeal, the familial, and the intellectual in form—as well as the realities of loss and isolation and the idea of belonging

      12 min read

    • Article

      We Need a Break

      Nov 5, 2020

      I often imagined him wearied from the act, beads of sweat embroidering his forehead, average-Joe sleeves rolled into blue collar folds just above his forearms, his knees weak and awkward, a gentle sigh filtering through his white flowing beard. I can

      4 min read

    • Article

      Living Memory

      Jun 23, 2021

      Living Memory
      18 min read

    • Article

      Celestial Portraits

      Aug 14, 2020

      Celestial Portraits
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology Edited by Karina Vernon

      Sep 15, 2020

      The Prairies are my home. The Prairies are not my home. I am from the Prairies. I am not from the Prairies. It has always been like this. Although I, a Black woman of varied origins, have spent a significant portion of my life living in Alberta, my r

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Short Survey Of The U. S. And Apache In The Southwest, 1846-1886

    3/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Short Survey Of The U. S. And Apache In The Southwest, 1846-1886 - Bertha Blount

      THE APACHE IN THE SOUTHWEST, 1846-1886

      For three hundred years the Spanish and Mexicans waged relentless war against the Apache who returned all of their cruelty and hatred in double measure. The Apache proved that he was neither to be subdued nor conquered as had been the Indians of Mexico, and the passing years widened the gulf that yawned between him and his would be masters. When the people of the United States looked with longing eyes upon the Southwest, it was in utter ignorance of the tremendous problem that awaited them,——a problem that had proved the undoing of both Spaniard and Mexican before them. Prosperous settlements and thriving ranches had been laid waste by the indomitable Apache until his very name struck terror to the heart of man, woman and child. With an insatiable land-hunger and with a boundless faith in their own ability to master the situation, the people of the United States invaded the southwest, acquired Mexican territory and incidentally acquired some thousands of fierce and warlike Apache, who must be conquered, restrained and taught a new mode of life ere the new possession could offer adequate protection to its inhabitants. From 1846 until 1886 the struggle went on between the Apache and their new foes. Various plans for bringing order out of chaos were proposed and given trial and many lives were sacrificed before peace and order came to stay. The story of these forty years of conflict are full of human interest for they are the story of a strong and gifted people making a heroic struggle for their ancestral home and for their tribal freedom, longing with an intense longing to be allowed to live their lives in accord with the wild and savage customs handed down to them from their savage forbears. Arrayed against them were a people of virile stock, bearing aloft the torch of civilization and humanity but, being intensely human, their higher ideals had mixed with them baser desires of selfishness, hatred and greed, and it was largely due to these latter traits that the settlement was forty long years in coming.

      Though the Apache had long been the bitter enemy of the Mexican, yet the citizen of the United States did not share the hatred so generously given his southern neighbor. Indeed the Apache welcomed the United States as an ally during the Mexican War, for Mexico was their common foe. But the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo wrought a great change; a change not at first recognized by the Apache. By the terms of the treaty, the United States assumed all responsibility for the protection of her newly acquired Mexican citizens and also for the enforcement of good-behavior by the lawless Apache, who was no more to be allowed to depredate south of the international boundary.

      General Kearny's treaties.——While on his hasty march of conquest, General Kearny held meetings with representatives of the various tribes, including the Apache, making treaties,——largely verbal,——with

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1