In 1861, a twelve-year-old boy named Felix was stolen during an Apache raid — a single act that set off decades of bloodshed between settlers and the Chiricahua. Raised among the very people who took ...

In the spring of 1870, more than a hundred Apaches — men, women and children — were massacred after surrendering to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant near Tucson in the Arizona Territory. They were killed ...

A visit to Fort Bowie National Historic Site in southeastern Arizona requires some effort. It’s a long drive into Cochise County, the last mile on a dirt road, and then that’s followed by a 1.5-mile ...

Reprint of 28-part regional history series by Lori Davisson originally published in the Fort Apache scout newspaper between June 1973 and October 1977. Contents Editor's introduction: Ndee history ...

Elizabeth Hightower Allen's Introduction to First & Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100 illuminates that “in 1924, the Forest Service officially created the Gila Wilderness.” The term 'Gila,' however, ...