The People Called Apache
Worth buying if: interested in Geronimo, Cochise, and other named Apache leaders.
Skip it if: seeking recent academic archaeology or 21st-century tribal-authored history.
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Summary
The People Called Apache collects cultural background, biographies of leaders, and frontier-era encounters to sketch Apache social life and resistance; Mails blends ethnographic detail with narrative episodes drawn from historical sources.
Why this book now
Mails’s 1995 study remains a compact entry for those reassessing Apache leadership, oral history, and U.S.–Native encounters in popular history collections.
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- interested in Geronimo, Cochise, and other named Apache leaders.
- curious about Apache social customs, kinship, and oral narratives.
- seeking recent academic archaeology or 21st-century tribal-authored history.
- looking for deep footnoted scholarship or contemporary tribal perspectives.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780792458388
Worth buying if: interested in Geronimo, Cochise, and other named Apache leaders.
Skip it if: seeking recent academic archaeology or 21st-century tribal-authored history.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Balanced Moderate time
A modest popular-history read—suitable for a few focused sittings rather than a semester-long research project.
What stands out here
This Advantage Pub Group edition preserves Mails’s narrative emphasis on personalities and traditional Apache accounts rather than new archival revisions.
Best way to approach it
Approach it as a narrative primer: note the biographical sketches and oral-history passages, and cross-check dates or interpretations with modern Native scholarship if you need analytical depth.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780792458388
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