The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History. By Paul Andrew Hutton.

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The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History . By Paul Andrew Hutton. (New York: Crown, 2016. xiv + 514 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00, CAN$40.00; $30.00, e-book.) Nineteenth-century Apacheria encompassed an enormous expanse of the desert and rugged mountain terrain of the American Southwest and northern Mexico, a landscape well suited to the guerrilla warfare strategies employed by independent and widely scattered Apache bands. The resulting wars consumed four bloody decades of raids and reprisals, more often resembling small skirmishes rather than decisive battles. Over time, however, relentless military pursuits and the burning of Indian encampments deprived the Apaches of their most remote sanctuaries and forced the last groups to surrender in 1886. Paul Andrew Hutton, professor of history at the University of New … mtate{at}mail.unomaha.edu