Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.004972
EAN num: 9780874041910
ISBN number: 0874041910
Label: University of Texas Press
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 72
Printing Date: 1992-04
Publishing house: University of Texas Press
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Studio: University of Texas Press
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For how many years had the Apaches lived and survived in the Southwest, even with Spanish, Mexican, and Americans aggression? And yet within a matter of a few short years after Merejildo Grijalva leaves the Apaches, are the Apaches forcefully removed form their homelands. The author demonstrates that the strongest reason for the subduing of the Apaches is because of the valuable information provided by Merejildo Grijalva and other scouts to the United States Army. Devastating campaigns against hidden Apache strongholds could be conducted by the U.S. Army, with Grijalva leading the way. In fact it is my opinion that if Grijalva hadn't left the apaches, the Apache wars could have waged on for at least another 10 or 20 years. What would that have meant for America? With 2 world wars on the horizon, could the Copper and Uranium rich Arizona and New mexico territories have been fully utilized by the U.S. when needed?
If the book has one draw back it is that I would have liked to have read more about Merejildo's life in Solomonville, Arizona. My own family (the Garcia's) Settled in Solomonville at this time and lived on a farm right subsequent to merejildo's. I would have loved to have read how Merejildo received the Gila River land and also why he chose to live there. If I could gleen some insight into his decisions I could possibly understand why my ancesters did the same. Lastly, I wish that more information was uncovered concerning Merejildo's relationship with the Freighters of the area, particularly Tully and Ochoa (Run by Esteban Ochoa with Sydney Delong and Michael Steck as silent partners), Mariano and his mom Raphaela Barela of Mesilla, Ex-confederate Jack Swilling, and The Western end of the Butterfield Mail Company (Brad Daley, Price Cooper, Etc.)
Ultimately though this excellent Book brings out more hidden truth about the South west than many can fully, currently, comprehend! You need to buy this book to understand the Rise and Fall of the Apaches!
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Merejildo Grijalva was an Indian Scout who was captured by the Chiricahua Apaches in 1849 and lived more than a decade among the people under such renowned Native American leaders as Miguel Narbona, Mangas Coloradas, and Cochise. Indeed, it was Cochise who used Grijalva as his interpreter in the late 1850s. In 1859, Apache agent Michael Steck encouraged Grijalva to escape the Apaches and two years later aided the American army working in the New Mexico Territory and out of Fort Bowie, Arizona. Edwin Sweeney's Merejildo Grijalva: Apache Captive, Army Scout is number 96 in the University of Texas at El Paso Southwestern Studies series and a work of impeccable scholarship that will be much appreciated by students of Native American studies and western frontier history.
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I think this is just a wonderful book, not only because we have the same last name,but the name of Grijalva goes back into history, like Juan de Grijalva 1518 explorer, Juan Pablo Grijalva, with the 1775/76 Anza Expedtion. You have to read this book yourself to understand what Edwin R. Sweeney wrote in this book.
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