Mangas Coloradas - Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches

Informationen zum Autor Retired as a professional accountant, Edwin R. Sweeney is an independent scholar and the author of Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief ; Mangas Coloradas: Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches ; and From Cochise to Geronimo: The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874-1886. Klappentext Volume 231 in the Civilization of the American Indian SeriesMangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years. During the last years of Mangas's life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led an assault against white settlement in Apacheria that made the two of them the most feared warriors in the Southwest. In this first full-length biography of the legendary chief, Ed Sweeney vividly portrays the Apache culture in which Mangas rose to power and the conflict with Americans that led to his brutal death.A giant of a man, Mangas combined great physical strength with a sagacity and wisdom that had made him the acknowledged leader of the Chiricahuas by 1842.Retired as a professional accountant, Edwin R. Sweeney is an independent scholar and one of the preeminent historians of the Apaches. He is the author of FROM COCHISE TO GERONIMO: THE CHIRICAHUA APACHES, 1874-1886, and COCHISE: CHIRICAHUA APACHE CHIEF both published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Product details

• Authors: Edwin J. Sweeney, Edwin R Sweeney, Edwin R. Sweeney
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.2011
• EAN: 9780806142395
• ISBN: 978-0-8061-4239-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Civilization of the American I; Civilization of the American I; The Civilization of the American Indian Series; Civilization of the American Indian (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries