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Title: Life Among the Apaches by John Carey Cremony ISBN: 0-8032-6312-0 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating and Authentic
Comment: Life Among The Apaches is one of the most interesting and fascinating historical nonfiction works that I have ever come across. It's a first-hand account of John C. Cremony's personal adventures with Apache indians in the latter part of the 19th century, in particular the Chiricahua Apaches. I've never come across a better or more explanatory or descriptive account of Apache peoples, culture, or way of life in the 1800's than in Life Among The Apaches.
This book was given to me as a present some years ago, and it has proven to be one of the most authentic Native American historical pieces of literature that has ever been abridged.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Mixture of Fact & Fiction
Comment: Cremony's book inspired many a Hollywood screenwriter, and for years his words have been taken as gospel. As a writer who lives in the Southwest, I have visited some of the important locations and began to doubt his veracity. Scholars have since shown that Cremony was habitually inflating his own importance and his knowledge of Apache ways and history. Of particular note are his highly fictionalized accounts of the life of Mangas Coloradas -- a man far more important to history than Cremony. But this work remains an extremely telling document of a time and place -- and all the strange attitudes that made up "white" perceptions.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unknown Treasure of the West and Indian Culture
Comment: A refreshingly open and objective look at the Apache culture before the reservations. Cremony wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and earned their grudging respect. He shows admiration for their amazing courage, endurance, and skills of warfare and survival. But, since this was written a century before the political correctness Victorianism we now are censored by, Cremony is able to share his concerns about their interesting work ethic (it is dishonorable for a man to work besides hunting and stealing) and their cruelty. Cremony makes some polite comments about the extreme attractiveness of some of the Apache women which suggests, at a minimum, an emotional involvement -- which adds a touching romantic side to this well written account.
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Title: Western Apache Raiding and Warfare by Grenville Goodwin, Keith H. Basso ISBN: 0816502978 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: In the Days of Victorio; Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache by Eve Ball, James Kaywaykla ISBN: 0816504016 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians by Morris Edward Opler ISBN: 0803286104 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival As Told to Eve Ball by Sherry Robinson ISBN: 0826321631 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Indeh: An Apache Odyssey by Eve Ball, Nora Henn, Lynda A. Sanchez ISBN: 0806121653 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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