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The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History Hardcover – Deckle Edge, May 3, 2016

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In the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the 25-year Apache struggle for their homeland.
 
They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides--the Apaches and the white invaders—blamed him for it. A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers, he was never trusted by either but desperately needed by both. He was the only man Geronimo ever feared. He played a pivotal role in this long war for the desert Southwest from its beginning in 1861 until its end in 1890 with his pursuit of the renegade scout, Apache Kid.
 
In this sprawling, monumental work, Paul Hutton unfolds over two decades of the last war for the West through the eyes of the men and women who lived it. This is Mickey Free's story, but also the story of his contemporaries: the great Apache leaders Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, and Victorio; the soldiers Kit Carson, O. O. Howard, George Crook, and Nelson Miles; the scouts and frontiersmen Al Sieber, Tom Horn, Tom Jeffords, and Texas John Slaughter; the great White Mountain scout Alchesay and the Apache female warrior Lozen; the fierce Apache warrior Geronimo; and the Apache Kid. These lives shaped the violent history of the deserts and mountains of the Southwestern borderlands--a bleak and unforgiving world where a people would make a final, bloody stand against an American war machine bent on their destruction.
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"Paul Hutton is one the great scholars of Western Americana, but he's also a natural born storyteller, with a rare gift for locating the deep ironies that suffuse history. Hutton has brought this sere landscape—and this classic clash of the borderlands—to pungent life on the page." —Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder and In the Kingdom of Ice

“A fast-paced, well-written page-turner. Hutton gives an excellent account of individuals, both Native American and White, who contested for control of the Southwest in the 19th Century.” R. David Edmunds, Watson Professor of American History, University of Texas at Dallas
 
“Hutton captures the intensity and drama of the history of both sides in this vibrant segment of western history.” Robert M. Utley, author of Geronimo and The Lance and the Shield
 
“After reading this masterfully researched and written book I thanked my lucky stars for Paul Hutton. It took an author and historian of his caliber to at long last deliver the definitive explanation of the longest war in the nation's history. The wait was worth it. By using the legendary Apache scout and manhunter Mickey Free as a vehicle to tell the story, Hutton cuts through layers of myth exposing one of the most exciting and pivotal episodes in the annals of the American West.”  —Michael Wallis, author of The Wild West: 365 Days

"Humane, insightful, and vivid, 
The Apache Wars immerses readers in the rugged landscape of Apacheria, the meeting ground and battlefield of nations. In telling the gripping story of the Apaches' long fight against Mexico and the United States, Hutton proves once again why he is a great writer as well as a great historian." —T.J. Stiles, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

“[A] sprawling, fascinating tale of conflict in the late 19th-century American southwest...Hutton moves beyond standard descriptions of battles between Apache warriors and American troops (though there are plenty of those) to paint a larger, more detailed picture of Southwestern life... Hutton provides an unexpected twist that keeps the story fresh until the end.”
Publishers Weekly 

"“His prose is equal to the vastness of his landscape and the clash of so many era-defining personalities...Mr. Hutton is also terrier-like in his persistence in tracking and deconstructing every significant skirmish in the conflict, and there are plenty of them. In terms of colorful characters, there is an embarrassment of riches...Where
The Apache Wars really shines is in the richness of its details, well researched and deeply understood.”Wall Street Journal

"The accounts of armed conflict are stirringly told and often read like a Western thriller… [T]horoughly researched.”
Kirkus Reviews

"An outstanding, comprehensive overview of the Apache Wars of Arizona and New Mexico...This recounting of the Southwestern battles for Apacheria will be valued by general readers and researchers alike for its colorful personalities and strong representation of the cultural context of historical events.”Library Journal

"“[A] major work of history on a much-neglected subject... The Apache Wars is an epic tale filled with Homeric scenes and unforgettable characters. It's a quintessential American story that too few Americans know.”Chicago Tribune

""A comprehensive narrative, as encompassing as the American West itself."Denver Post

"Sharply and unflinchingly explores the many years of bloody, thunderous conflicts between soldiers based in camps and forts and elusive Apaches in New Mexico and Arizona.”Albuquerque Journal

About the Author

PAUL ANDREW HUTTON is an American cultural historian, author, documentary writer, and television personality. He is also a professor of history at the University of New Mexico, a former executive director of the Western History Association and former president of the Western Writers of America.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crown; First Edition (May 3, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0770435815
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0770435813
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.7 x 9.6 inches
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2017 WINNER OF THE WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA SPUR AWARD for THE APACHE WARS

BEST NONFICTION BOOK of 2016, THE APACHE WARS, TRUE WEST magazine

FINALIST, EVANS BIOGRAPHY AWARD, THE APACHE WARS

Paul Andrew Hutton is an American cultural historian, award-winning author, documentary writer, and television personality. He is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, a former director of the Western History Association, and former president of the Western Writers of America. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, he was adopted at six months of age by an American Air Force couple and was raised around the world, in Germany, England, and Taiwan. The four years he spent in San Angelo, Texas, however, had a profound impact--imprinting a love of all things Western, and most especially the history of the era known as the Wild West. It was Davy Crockett and the Alamo that first sparked this fascination. Educated in England, Texas, Taiwan, and Indiana, he received his doctorate in American history from Indiana University in 1981. He has published widely in both scholarly and popular magazines, and is a six-time winner of both the Western Writers of America Spur Award and the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for his print and film writing. His first book, Phil Sheridan and His Army,received the Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Evans Biography Award, and the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. He is also the editor of Western Heritage (2011), Roundup (2010), Frontier and Region (1997), The Custer Reader (1992), Soldiers West (1987), and the ten-volume Eyewitness to the Civil War series from Bantam Books (1991-1993). His latest book, The Apache Wars, was just awarded the best nonfiction Spur Award from Western Writers of America (June 2017). From 1977 to 1984 he was associate editor of the Western Historical Quarterly and assistant professor at Utah State University, before moving to the University of New Mexico in 1984. From 1985 to 1991 he served as editor of the New Mexico Historical Review. He has written several short films for state and national parks as well as a dozen television documentaries and has appeared in over 300 television programs on CBS, NBC, PBS, BBC, Fox, Discovery, the History Channel and other networks. In 2003 he was historical consultant for the Ron Howard film The Missing, in 2010 repeated that role in Jon Favreau's Cowboys and Aliens, and again in 2016 on Gavin O'Connor's Jane Got a Gun, and even has a small speaking role in David Zucker's 1994 Naked Gun 33 1/3. He has also been active as a public historian with museums, guest curating major exhibits in 1985 on the Alamo at the DeGolyer Library in Dallas, in 1996 on the Custer legend at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, in 2002 on Davy Crockett at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, in 2007 on Billy the Kid at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. His new exhibit on New Mexico film-making, opened in February 2017 at the Albuquerque Museum. He has five children--Laura, Caitlin, Lorena, Chelsea, and Paul Andy--and currently lives with his wife Tracy and two pups--lab Bucky O'Neill and boxer-mix Annie Oakley-- in Albuquerque

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Customers find the book an enjoyable and valuable read about an important era in U.S. history. They appreciate the well-researched and informative content, as well as the writing quality and presentation. Readers praise the interesting characters and their perspectives on both sides of the conflict. However, some find the narrative style difficult to follow at times.

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Customers find the book engaging and informative about an important era in U.S. history. They appreciate its detailed coverage and value it for providing accurate information about the area. The writing style reads like a thriller, providing good insights into how battles were fought. Overall, customers describe it as one of the best books they have read.

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Nasty, Brutish, and Short
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Nasty, Brutish, and Short
As I read through The Apache Wars by Paul Andre Hutton, I was reminded of Thomas Hobbes' famous description of man's original state of nature. He described it as a state of "continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” There is no better description of the southwestern United States during much of the nineteenth-century. Making up parts of modern-day California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico, this was the land known as Apacheria. It was a land ruled by tribes of Apache Indians - united in their language and similar culture but divided in many other ways - each vying for power as white settlers moved in from the east and south. Conflict was bound to arise; and it did.This book begins with the kidnapping of a young boy named Felix Ward by a group of Apaches. This abduction would set off a chain of events that led to, as the subtitle makes clear, the longest war in American history. In large measure, this is the story of Felix Ward - a half-Irish, half-Mexican adopted Apache who would be involved in the war between the white men and the Apaches until all of them were on reservations in Florida, Alabama, or Oklahoma. He was renamed Mickey Free and often acted as a mediator between his people - the white man on one side, the Apache on the other. He's one of the only characters that makes it all the way through the book. Nearly every other figure mentioned, American or Apache, ends up living a short, nasty, brutish life.Hutton does an admirable job at weaving the different threads of history together to craft an intelligible narrative. Unfortunately, since this is a history of a rather large piece of land over a lengthy period of time, it's easy to get lost in the sea of names. Some characters will be introduced as children and then, an hundred pages later re-enter the story as adolescents or men. This can leave the reader trying to remember how all of the characters fit into the story. Likewise, many of the Apaches are related to one another and all of the relationships can become confused - especially when several of the Apaches have the same, or very similar names. However, none of this is necessarily Hutton's fault. It's just the nature of writing this type of history book.Regardless, the writing is solid and the narrative keeps the reader interested from the first page until the last. There's enough murder, lying, backstabbing, and cheating to fill a day-time soap for years. And Hutton isn't afraid to let the blame fall on both sides - American and Apache. It's clear that neither side had clean hands. But that's history, isn't it? We like to look back and separate everyone into 'good guys' and 'bad guys' but too often, the reality is far more messy than that.The fact is, men are sinful. This book is a tragic reminder of that fact.It would be wise for us to read this kind of history - the kind that reveals not only America's triumphs but also her warts. It's an important reminder that America has always had her issues, just like every other nation in the world.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2018
    The Apache Wars:...reminds me of Empire of the Summer Moon, another great history of frontier life dealing with the Comanche nation and an expanding Texas. The Apache Wars takes place further west over the several decades leading up to the mid-1890s. Living it as a participant on either side was a harrowing and violent experience where death (and possibly a gruesome death) could come out of the cottonwoods at any moment and where policy attempted to deal with a people writ large who were in reality a score of sub-tribes and family groups often fighting each other as well as Americans and Mexicans.

    It is possible to draw parallels to the American Experience in Vietnam. A military leadership both far away and on the scene who (with a few exceptions) didn't understand or sympathize with the other side. Boneheaded military decisions that put any peaceful resolution farther away rather than nearer. Attempts to pacify by telling natives where and how to live. A native combatant force that was mobile, fierce and hard to find most of the time.

    I hope interested readers keep with this book. The reality of the Apaches and the far flung American army posts that described the area were on both-sides semi-autonomous groups under the direct authority of local leaders. The number and strangeness of Apache sub tribe names and the names of individuals will probably be off putting to readers who expect to be able to keep players straight. If one accepts this book as more thematic by way of the collection of individual events and stories that describe the conflict, this works very well.

    I found it thoroughly engaging and fascinating as a history of a conflict largely forgotten. The writing is well done and quickly and effectively describes for the reader the types of experiences, key players, attempts to make policy and conflicts that make up the story of the end of the Apache's as controllers of their own destiny. A very good read I recommend.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2016
    This is a good read about an important era in this country's history when the southwest was gripped by a long drawn out conflict that prevented its settlement. The Apache bands raided, murdered, and plundered for centuries because that is what they did. Plenty of other Indian tribes, Mexicans, and Americans were the target of this way of life that meant your security and life in the southwest happened to depend on whether you randomly or by design came in contact with them. This book goes into to great detail about many events that finally resulted in the Apaches giving up and settling on reservations that roughly overlaid their original homelands. The author sometimes seemed to form an opinion about a participant in the wars then that opinion later in the history becomes the exact opposite. This happens several times so their seems to be an inconsistency or the participant himself changed which the author failed to attribute to that participant. Would recommend this book to those who love American history.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2016
    As I read through The Apache Wars by Paul Andre Hutton, I was reminded of Thomas Hobbes' famous description of man's original state of nature. He described it as a state of "continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” There is no better description of the southwestern United States during much of the nineteenth-century. Making up parts of modern-day California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico, this was the land known as Apacheria. It was a land ruled by tribes of Apache Indians - united in their language and similar culture but divided in many other ways - each vying for power as white settlers moved in from the east and south. Conflict was bound to arise; and it did.

    This book begins with the kidnapping of a young boy named Felix Ward by a group of Apaches. This abduction would set off a chain of events that led to, as the subtitle makes clear, the longest war in American history. In large measure, this is the story of Felix Ward - a half-Irish, half-Mexican adopted Apache who would be involved in the war between the white men and the Apaches until all of them were on reservations in Florida, Alabama, or Oklahoma. He was renamed Mickey Free and often acted as a mediator between his people - the white man on one side, the Apache on the other. He's one of the only characters that makes it all the way through the book. Nearly every other figure mentioned, American or Apache, ends up living a short, nasty, brutish life.

    Hutton does an admirable job at weaving the different threads of history together to craft an intelligible narrative. Unfortunately, since this is a history of a rather large piece of land over a lengthy period of time, it's easy to get lost in the sea of names. Some characters will be introduced as children and then, an hundred pages later re-enter the story as adolescents or men. This can leave the reader trying to remember how all of the characters fit into the story. Likewise, many of the Apaches are related to one another and all of the relationships can become confused - especially when several of the Apaches have the same, or very similar names. However, none of this is necessarily Hutton's fault. It's just the nature of writing this type of history book.

    Regardless, the writing is solid and the narrative keeps the reader interested from the first page until the last. There's enough murder, lying, backstabbing, and cheating to fill a day-time soap for years. And Hutton isn't afraid to let the blame fall on both sides - American and Apache. It's clear that neither side had clean hands. But that's history, isn't it? We like to look back and separate everyone into 'good guys' and 'bad guys' but too often, the reality is far more messy than that.

    The fact is, men are sinful. This book is a tragic reminder of that fact.

    It would be wise for us to read this kind of history - the kind that reveals not only America's triumphs but also her warts. It's an important reminder that America has always had her issues, just like every other nation in the world.
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    Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2016
    As I read through The Apache Wars by Paul Andre Hutton, I was reminded of Thomas Hobbes' famous description of man's original state of nature. He described it as a state of "continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” There is no better description of the southwestern United States during much of the nineteenth-century. Making up parts of modern-day California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico, this was the land known as Apacheria. It was a land ruled by tribes of Apache Indians - united in their language and similar culture but divided in many other ways - each vying for power as white settlers moved in from the east and south. Conflict was bound to arise; and it did.

    This book begins with the kidnapping of a young boy named Felix Ward by a group of Apaches. This abduction would set off a chain of events that led to, as the subtitle makes clear, the longest war in American history. In large measure, this is the story of Felix Ward - a half-Irish, half-Mexican adopted Apache who would be involved in the war between the white men and the Apaches until all of them were on reservations in Florida, Alabama, or Oklahoma. He was renamed Mickey Free and often acted as a mediator between his people - the white man on one side, the Apache on the other. He's one of the only characters that makes it all the way through the book. Nearly every other figure mentioned, American or Apache, ends up living a short, nasty, brutish life.

    Hutton does an admirable job at weaving the different threads of history together to craft an intelligible narrative. Unfortunately, since this is a history of a rather large piece of land over a lengthy period of time, it's easy to get lost in the sea of names. Some characters will be introduced as children and then, an hundred pages later re-enter the story as adolescents or men. This can leave the reader trying to remember how all of the characters fit into the story. Likewise, many of the Apaches are related to one another and all of the relationships can become confused - especially when several of the Apaches have the same, or very similar names. However, none of this is necessarily Hutton's fault. It's just the nature of writing this type of history book.

    Regardless, the writing is solid and the narrative keeps the reader interested from the first page until the last. There's enough murder, lying, backstabbing, and cheating to fill a day-time soap for years. And Hutton isn't afraid to let the blame fall on both sides - American and Apache. It's clear that neither side had clean hands. But that's history, isn't it? We like to look back and separate everyone into 'good guys' and 'bad guys' but too often, the reality is far more messy than that.

    The fact is, men are sinful. This book is a tragic reminder of that fact.

    It would be wise for us to read this kind of history - the kind that reveals not only America's triumphs but also her warts. It's an important reminder that America has always had her issues, just like every other nation in the world.
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  • Babs
    5.0 out of 5 stars Apache wars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2025
    If you like Western history, this is the book to get. The book gives you a full run down on the conflict between the Apaches and the Army, plus their hatred of Mexico. Well researched and written. A must
  • Brian Russell
    5.0 out of 5 stars A real page turner, even though its non-fiction.
    Reviewed in Canada on October 12, 2018
    I loved it just as much as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Very sad the broken promises of the government and army and murder of helpless women and children, and Apache children sold into slavery. Yes, the Apaches did terrible things in retaliation when their families and homelands were threatened. But there were some in the military and civilian life who tried very hard for the Indians to be treated fairly. Numerous people in authority who despised the Apaches grew to respect them and want to protect them when they had sustained contact with them.
  • otakte
    2.0 out of 5 stars Bof....
    Reviewed in France on May 20, 2017
    Quand on aime cette période de l'histoire et sa région on a déjà, comme moi pas mal de livres sur le sujet, les classiques, Sweeney, Balls, Soennichen etc....Et ce dernier livre, bien écrit et documenté n'apporte rien de nouveau à ce que je sais de cette période, ce n'est qu'une compilation de ce que j'ai déjà lu....
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  • chattahoochee
    4.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly enjoyable.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2020
    I wish the maps at the front could be made available to read as the story unfolded - I had a Kindle edition. Otherwise a very informative read on what might have been a "dry" subject.
  • Leith Campbell
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best historical books on the Apache reality in the 1800's
    Reviewed in Canada on July 4, 2018
    One of the best historical books on the Apache reality in the 1800's. Outstandi9ng read! Thank you for making it availabale on Kindle.