Description
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 Louis Kraft presents Gatewood's previously unpublished account, complementing it with an introduction, additional text that fills in the gaps in Gatewood's narrative, detailed notes, and an epilogue.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.
First-hand experience of a white commander of Apache scouts in the last Apache war.
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.
Reviews
"The memoir is a fascinating read. To fill in missing details, Kraft has provided excellent commentary and footnotes. Readers will find invaluable Lt. Gatewood's accounts of his service as chief of Apache scouts, commander of the White Mountain Apache Reservation, and later aide-de-camp to General Nelson Miles. . . . A welcome addition to the literature of the frontier army and Apache relations. . . . The book should provide students of military history and Native American studies a valuable primary source and fascinating chronicle of Apache life in the early reservation era."-Mark Edwin Miller, Western Historical Quarterly
"A treasture trove of information on the Apache Wars."-New Mexico Magazine
"Gatewood was an excellent writer with narrative skill and his memoir makes interesting reading."-Roundup Magazine
"This is a haunting story. . . . A good one to add to your Apache Wars reading collection."-Chronicle of the Old West
"Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir is a unique and welcome supplement to American military history or Native American studies shelves."-James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780803227729
Author Charles B. Gatewood
Format Hardback
Page Count 289
Imprint Bison Books
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 567g