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Surrender of the Apache Indians...
Surrender of the Apache Indians...
Item # 678391
May 14, 1873
THE WEST COAST SIGNAL, Eureka, California, May 14, 1873
* Rare Old West publication
From this town in Northern California just south of the Oregon border. It was once a lumbering town & today the entire city is a state historic landmark with its many Victorian homes, etc.
Page 2 has a report beginning: "We have news of the unconditional surrender of the Apache Indians to Col. Crook at Camp Verde, Arizona...very gratifying news indeed..." with further details. The front page has; "How Mark Twain Got a Seat".
Four pages, somewhat large size, rejoined at the spine, very nice condition.
AI notes: In 1873, a significant event in the long and difficult Apache Wars occurred when the Yavapai and Tonto Apache bands surrendered at Camp Verde, Arizona. After years of resistance against U.S. military campaigns aimed at confining them to reservations, the combined Apache and Yavapai groups were pursued relentlessly by troops under General George Crook, who had adopted new winter campaign tactics that denied the tribes refuge or supplies. Facing starvation, exhaustion, and constant pursuit, the remaining Apache and Yavapai leaders agreed to surrender at Camp Verde in April 1873. They laid down their arms and accepted relocation to the Rio Verde Reservation. Although Crook promised humane treatment and some autonomy, the peace was short-lived—by 1875, government policy shifted, and nearly 1,500 Yavapai and Tonto people were forcibly marched about 180 miles to the San Carlos Reservation, a devastating relocation known as the “Yavapai Exodus.” The 1873 surrender at Camp Verde thus marked both the end of one phase of Apache resistance and the beginning of another chapter of hardship under U.S. control.
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