Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir

by Gatewood, Charles B.

• ISBN13: 9780803227729
• ISBN10: 0803227728
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (18531896), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures. It was this connection that Gatewood formed with the Indians, and with Geronimo and Naiche in particular, that led to his involvement in the last Apache war and his work for Indian rights. Realizing that he had more experience dealing with Native peoples than other lieutenants serving on the frontier, Gatewood decided to record his experiences. Although he died before he completed his project, the work he left behind remains an important firsthand account of his life as a commander of Apache scouts and as a military commandant of the White Mountain Indian Reservation. Louis Kraft presents Gatewood's previously unpublished account, punctuating it with an introduction, additional text that fills in the gaps in Gatewood's narrative, detailed notes, and an epilogue. Kraft's work offers new background information on Gatewood and discusses the manuscript as a fresh account of how Gatewood viewed the events in which he took part. Louis Kraft, an independent scholar, is the author ofGatewood & GeronimoandCuster and the Cheyenne: George Armstrong Custer's Winter Campaign on the Southern Plains.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xv
PROLOGUE The Adventure Begins	1	(4)
CHAPTER ONE Mismanagement and the Last Outbreak	5	(6)
CHAPTER TWO The Apache Indians	11	(34)
CHAPTER THREE Military Commandant	45	(38)
CHAPTER FOUR Civil Problems	83	(30)
CHAPTER FIVE Gatewood and Geronimo	113	(46)
EPILOGUE Slow Fade to Oblivion	159	(14)
APPENDIX Old Black Joe's Devil	173	(8)
Notes	181	(80)
Bibliography	261	(8)
Index	269