Description
Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853-96), 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 precisely this connection between Gatewood and 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, Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir is an important firsthand account of Gatewood's 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 Louis Kraft presents Gatewood's previously unpublished account, complementing it with an introduction, additional text that fills in the gaps in Gatewood's narrative, detailed notes, and an epilogue.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 throws the manuscript into new relief as a fresh account of how Gatewood viewed the events in which he took part.
Author: Charles B. Gatewood
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780803218840
ISBN10: 0803218842
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- History | United States | 19th Century
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, Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir is an important firsthand account of Gatewood's 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 Louis Kraft presents Gatewood's previously unpublished account, complementing it with an introduction, additional text that fills in the gaps in Gatewood's narrative, detailed notes, and an epilogue.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 throws the manuscript into new relief as a fresh account of how Gatewood viewed the events in which he took part.
Author: Charles B. Gatewood
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780803218840
ISBN10: 0803218842
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- History | United States | 19th Century
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.