Peter Cozzens - The Struggle for Apacheria

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Being abroad on a diplomatic assignment with the Department of State, I found it particularly challenging to gather the articles and other primary accounts presented in this volume. Without the persons mentioned below, whose help I am pleased to acknowledge, it would have been impossible.

First, I thank my mother for her many trips to the Wheaton, Illinois, Public Library, submitting OCLC requests, and retrieving articles; my sincere thanks go also to the staff of the periodicals department of the Wheaton Public Library for their patience and diligence in filling these requests.

My good friend and collaborator on the Military Memoirs of John Pope , Robert I. Girardi, also obtained for me copies of several of the articles appearing in this volume.

I also thank Kim Frontz of the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, who kindly provided me with manuscript material from the societys archives, as well as copies of newspaper and magazine articles from their holdings; Nan Card of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library, who provided me with microfilm copies of the John Bourke Diary made from that librarys filmed set; Brian J. Kenny of the Denver Public Library, for copies of articles from the Great Divide ; and Bonnie Hardwick of the Bancroft Library, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, for a copy of L. Y. Lorings Report on Coyo tero Apaches.

Much of the material presented here I obtained during several visits to the Newberry Library in Chicago. The reference staff of that institution was most helpful on every occasion.

I express my gratitude to the Arizona Historical Society, the Bancroft Library of the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, and the United States Military Academy Library for permission to reprint material from their manuscript collections.

I am indebted to Edwin Sweeney, the preeminent authority on the Indian Wars of the Southwest and on Apache-Anglo relations, and to Scott Forsythe of the National Archives for their penetrating and well-considered critique of the historical introduction. They saved me from several embarrassing errors of fact and of questionable interpretation. Any remaining errors are of course my own.

I am also grateful to my copyeditor, Joyce Bond, for her careful editing and constructive suggestions.

Finally, I thank my editor at Stackpole, Leigh Ann Berry, for her enthusiastic support of this project.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 18651890 / edited by Peter Cozzens. 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

Contents: v. 1. The struggle for Apacheria

ISBN: 0-8117-0572-2

1. Western Apache IndiansWars. 2. Chiricahua IndiansWars. 3. Indians of North AmericaWars18661895. 4. Crook, George, 18291890. 5. Geronimo, 18291909. I. Cozzens, Peter, 1957

E99.A6 E94 2001
973.8dc21

00-052270

eISBN: 9780811749527

To the memory of my father
JAMES WHITE COZZENS (191783)