Massacre On The Lordsburg Road: A Tragedy Of The Apache Wars

ISBN-10: 1585444464
ISBN-13: 9781585444465
Category: Apache Indians
Pages: 270
Language: English
Published: 2004-12-06
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Author: Marc Simmons

Description

In the spring of 1883 Judge Hamilton C. McComas and his family were attacked by Apaches on a desolate road in New Mexico Territory. The judge and his wife were killed, and their six-year-old son, Charles, was kidnapped. Although America's reaction to the attack was intense and the search for the missing child as highly publicized as the later Lindbergh kidnapping, little was known or understood at the time about why or how the tragedy had occurred. Marc Simmons sheds the first light on the McComas family's fatal path and gives the first complete picture of circumstances surrounding this tragic event. From long-buried fragments, Simmons reconstructs the events of that fateful day, as well as the U.S. Army's first legal "hot pursuit" of an Apache raiding party into Mexico that followed. The puzzle of why a reputably wise and able man would lead his family into such a fatal predicament and the ironic circumstance of young Charles McComas's death at the hands of U.S. troops illustrate that past events were as complex and sometimes as confusing as those today.

Get the book

Similar books

From Cochise to Geronimo: The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874-1886
By Edwin R. Sweeney
In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer a definitive history of the turbulent period between Cochise's death and Geronimo's surrender in ...
An Honest Enemy: George Crook and the Struggle for Indian Rights
By Paul Magid
Thrapp, Dan L. Foreword to Indeh, An Apache Odyssey, by Eve Ball. Reprint, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Turcheneske, John A. “Arizonans and the Apache Prisoners at Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama: 'They Do Not Die Fast ...
A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885
By Gregory Michno, Susan Michno
... 172 Barclay, Alexander, 100 Barker, David H., 270 Barnett, Louise, 468 Bartholomew, James, 305 Bartruff, Johanna, ... William, 333 Bell, Aaron, 313, 315 Bell, Benjamin, 313, 315 Bell, Braxton B., 313, 315 Bell, David, 103 Bell, ...
Violent Encounters: Interviews on Western Massacres
By Deborah Lawrence, Jon Lawrence
[Laughs] I stand in awe of the Confession ofjohn D. Lee. Here's a book in which the protagonist admits that he engineered the murder of 120 people, most of them women and children. He accepts responsibility for running the show.
Murder and Intrigue on the Mexican Border: Governor Colquitt, President Wilson, and the Vergara Affair
By John A. Adams
... Massacre on the Lordsburg Road: A Tragedy of the Apache Wars Marc Simmons Geronimo's Kids: A Teacher's Lessons on the Apache Reservation Robert S. Ove and H. Henrietta Stockel Defiant Peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War ...
Chief Loco: Apache Peacemaker
By Bud Shapard
... Massacre on the Lordsburg Road, 109—13. Q Thrapp, General Crook, 115—16; Terrell, Apache Chronicle, 362; Debo, Geronimo, 159—60; Simmons, Massacre, 24, quoting Bourke, “Diary.” Q Simmons, Massacre, 157. Q lbid., 136; Albuquerque Tribune ...
When We Were Young in the West: True Stories of Childhood
By Richard Melzer
She said that when we left for school the house was sordo (deaf, meaning there wasn't any noise). I don't know why we fought so much. I guess we were a normal family. My mother would always see that there was something made for us to ...
Marc Simmons of New Mexico: Maverick Historian
By Phyllis S. Morgan
Revs . of The Battle of Glorieta Pass : A Gettysburg in the West , March 26–28 , 1862 , by Dr. Thomas S. Edrington and John Taylor ; and The Battle of Glorieta : Union Victory in the West , by Don E. Alberts . Book Talk 27 , no .
America's Military Adversaries: From Colonial Times to the Present
By John C. Fredriksen
... Street , 1992–1993 . Shy , John . Towards Lexington : The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American ... Massacre on the Lordsburg Road : A Tragedy of the Apache Wars . College Station : Texas A & M University Press ...
An Unfamiliar America: Essays in American Studies
By Ari Helo, Mikko Saikku
... Massacre on the Lordsburg Road: A Tragedy of the Apache Wars (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997), 84–130; Annual Report of the Secretary of War (ARSW), 1883, House Ex. Doc. No. 1, 48th Cong., 1st sess. Serial 2182, 161 ...