The Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars Fashion Templates and teaching about the past

and teaching about the past

The Giant Roc

from the simple pleasures of baking bread and cakes

for breakfast

Published in 1900

The Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars Fashion Templates and teaching about the pastIn 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable. The Apache band lived on a heavily traveled Emigrant and Overland Mail Trail and routinely raided it, organized by their leader, the prudent, not friendly Cochise. When a young boy was kidnapped from his stepfathers ranch, Lieutenant George Bascom confronted Cochise even though there was no proof that the Chiricahua were responsible. After a series of missteps, Cochise