One of the original seventeenth-century historical accounts of the Apaches and the southwestern American Indians.John C. Cremony’s first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s; when he accompanied John R. Bartlett’s boundary commission surveying the United States–Mexican border. Some ten years later; as an officer of the California Volunteers; he renewed his acquaintance; particularly with the Apaches; whom he came to know as few white Americans before him had. Cremony was the first white man to become fluent in the Apache language; and he published the first dictionary of their language as a tool for the US Army.Cremony’s account of his experiences; published in 1868; quickly became; and remains today; an indispensable source on Apache beliefs; tribal life; and fighting tactics. Although its original purpose was to induce more effective military suppression of the Apaches; it has all the fast-paced action and excitement of a novel and the authenticity of an ethnographic and historical document. Life Among the Apaches is unrivaled in its attention to detail; and Cremony’s firsthand accounts of the intricacies of daily life for the Apaches make it both an essential text on Native American culture and a truly important anthropological work.Skyhorse Publishing; as well as our Arcade imprint; are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II; the Third Reich; Hitler and his henchmen; the JFK assassination; conspiracies; the American Civil War; the American Revolution; gladiators; Vikings; ancient Rome; medieval times; the old West; and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller; we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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