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By Joseph Alton Sladen, Edwin R. Sweeney, Frank J., Jr. Sladen

ISBN-10: 0585169985

ISBN-13: 9780585169989

ISBN-10: 0806129735

ISBN-13: 9780806129730

A tribute to the mythical leader and his humans and a remembrance of brave officers“Cochise” used to be a reputation that struck terror in hearts around the Southwest. but within the autumn of 1872, Brigadier basic Oliver O. Howard and his aid-de-camp, Lieutenant Joseph Alton Sladen, entered Arizona’s rocky Dragoon Mountains looking for the elusive Chiricahua Apache leader. followed simply via a consultant and Apache scouts, they sought to persuade Cochise that the bloody combating among his humans and the americans needs to cease. Cochise had already reached that end, yet he had chanced on no American respectable he may trust.Slade, Howard’s dedicated aide, maintained a magazine in the course of their two-month quest from castle Tularosa, New Mexico, to Cochise’s stronghold. Joseph Sladen’s journal—enriched by means of Edwin R. Sweeney’s creation, epilogue, and energetic notes—is a special resource on Chiricahua lifeways and an engrossing story of trip and event.

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If Jeffords took General Page 7 Howard to Cochise, there would be no question this time about whether he had carded out his contract. Lt. Joseph Alton Sladen and Gen. Oliver Otis Howard were the final two players on the envoy's team. While Jeffords, Chie, and Ponce ensured that the group would meet Cochise, it was Howard and Sladen's presencetheir integrity and their actions; their persistence in searching for Cochise; their conviction that both sides must make peace; their honesty and openness with Cochise and his people; and their courage in placing their lives in the hands of Cochise, whom they knew only by reputationthat ultimately gained the confidence of the apprehensive chief.

EDWIN R. SWEENEY ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI Page 1 Making Peace with Cochise Page 3 Introduction During the first ten days of October 1872, a truly remarkable historical event took place in the rocky recesses of the western foothills of southeastern Arizona's Dragoon Mountains. A small party of men, composed of three white Americans (two military officers and one civilian guide) and two Apache Indians, entered the stronghold of the legendary Chiricahua Apache chief Cochise and convinced him that the bloody fighting between his people and the Americans must stop.

It was hard work toiling under the southern Arizona sun, and I am not fond of getting my hands dirty without good cause. ) The second development that resulted from my visit to Rucker Canyon occurred when I met James A. McDonald, a Forest Service archaeologist who came from Tucson to spend a few days at Camp Rucker. The journal of Capt. Joseph Alton Sladen was the first thing Jim McDonald and I discussed. " He then went on to suggest that I should be the person to prepare the journal for publication.

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