Roberts - Once They Moved Like the Wind

Acknowledgments

T o previous scholars of the Apache, I owe a great debtparticularly to such perspicacious and original researchers as Dan L. Thrapp, Edwin R. Sweeney, Eve Ball, Angie Debo, Grenville Goodwin, Morris Opler, Keith Basso, Robert M. Utley, and C. L. Sonnichsen. From the buried veins of Southwestern history, these writers have mined many a lode of hard-won fact; the conclusions I draw from their ore remain the product of my own milling and smelting.

On the various Apache reservations, I was greeted with good will by a number of informants. Ouida Miller, Geronimos granddaughter, gave me her trust and her insight, as did Berle Kanseah, Edgar Perry, and Elbys Hugar, Naiches granddaughter. Wendell Chino, tribal chairman of the Mescalero Apache, facilitated my research, as did Ronnie Lupe and the tribal council of the White Mountain Apache reservation. Mildred Cleghorn provided a generous vision of the Chiricahua legacy as it was handed down to the generations in exile from the heartland. Genevieve (Sunny) Wratten opened the coffers of her grandfathers remarkable knowledge as interpreter for the Chiricahua.

A trio of Tucson Apache experts, Jay Van Orden, Barney Burns, and the late Tom Naylor, did their best to steer me along the right paths as I commenced my work. Neil Goodwin likewise shared the understanding that informs his superb film, Geronimo and the Apache Resistance, as well as the heritage passed him by his father, Grenville Goodwin, the first ethnographer of the Apache.

The staff of the Arizona Historical Society gave unstintingly of the resources of the most important collection of Apache materials in existence; their cooperation and guidance seem to me to form an ideal model of how a great archive can help a scholar. The staffs of the libraries of the University of Arizona, the University of New Mexico, the University of Colorado, and Harvard University cheerfully came to my aid, as did Steve Wilson at the Museum of the Great Plains and the staffs of the Fort Sill Museum and the Fort Bowie National Historic Site.

Terry Moore made a splendid companion for an exploration of the Sierra Madre in search of Geronimos footprints. Bruce Dales own photographic enthusiasm made for a happy collaboration for National Geographic Erla Zwingle, my editor at that magazine, and Mark Bryant and John Rasmus at Outside gave me early and faithful encouragement.

Jon Krakauer, Sharon Roberts, and my indefatigable agent, Max Gartenberg, read my manuscript chapter by chapter and offered valuable suggestions. My editor at Simon & Schuster, Bob Bender, oversaw four years of research with the benign patience and intelligent coaxing that enabled one more writer, facing the terror of the blank page, to pick up his pen at last and begin.

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