The Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars

In 1861, war between the U.S. and the hostile Chiricahua Apaches seemed inevitable. When a young boy was kidnapped, Lieutenant George Bascom confronted Apache leader Cochise--an act some blamed for setting the smoldering conflict ablaze. This book analyzes that legend, versus what really happened, within the historical context of the Indian Wars.

Author: Doug Hocking
Publisher: Two Dot Books
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781493063796
ISBN10: 1493063790
BISAC Categories:
- History | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
- History | United States | State & Local | Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- Biography & Autobiography | Military

About the Author
Doug Hocking was born on Long Island. While still young, Hocking was transplanted to the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in New Mexico where he grew up forming close friendships with Native Americans and Mexican Americans learning the peoples, cultures, and terrain of the Southwest. Hocking currently lives in Sierra Vista, Arizona, where he has frequently visited the site of Forts Buchanan and Breckenridge, Cochise's Stronghold, Johnny Ward's Ranch, and Apache Pass, seeing them through the eyes of historian, ethnographer, and archaeologist.