If you ask people to name America’s longest war, many likely will pick the seemingly never-ending conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. But in this well-researched, engrossing book, Albuquerque author ...

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 Crown Publishing Group, $30, 544 pages On a March day ...

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In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols at Fort Buchanan, blaming a band of ...

Hutton (Phil Sheridan and His Army), a professor of history at the University of New Mexico, relates a sprawling, fascinating tale of conflict in the late 19th-century American southwest. In January ...

Second Lt. George Bascom was "a fine looking fellow" and a gentleman, a white settler of Arizona recalled, "but he was unfortunately a fool." After all, Bascom's decision in 1861 to take hostage ...