I've spent most of my year in New Mexico re-reading my cache of classic, paperback sci-fi novels. With that project complete (and the books now dispersed to the universe), I've turned my attention to New Mexico-centered literature.
Recently, I visited the Mescalero Apache Cultural Museum in Mescalero. The helpful curator there recommended a number of books on Apache history, some of which I include here:
- Cochise, Edwin R. Sweeney
- From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney
- The Apache Indians, Frank C. Lockwood
- An Apache Life, Morris Edward Opler
- I Fought With Geronimo, Jason Betsinez
- Making Peace with Cochise [journals of the peace talks], J.A. Sladen
- Mangas Coloradas, Edwin R. Sweeney
- Merejildo Grijalva : Apache Captive, Army Scout; Edwin R. Sweeney
- The People Called Apache, Thomas Mails
- Watch For Me on the Mountain, Forest Carter
There were many more on the curator's list, including some by well-known author on the Apaches, Eve Ball. Fortunately, the Alamogordo Library has a large collection of Southwestern materials, so I've created a to-read list.
Edwin R. Sweeney is from St. Charles, Missouri, by the way. I heard that when he was a young'n, he announced to his English teacher that some day he would write a book about Cochise, with whom he was fascinated. The teacher was a little skeptical, given the lackluster attention he gave to English in the classroom.
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