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In the Days of Victorio

In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache
Author
Eve Ball
Published
1970
Pages
222
Recommended
Once
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Why it’s on the list: James Kaywaykla’s narration, recorded by Eve Ball, of the Warm Springs Apache war as a child living it — first-hand, and the other side of every settler account of that country.

Where I heard about it

  • Debbie Lee — named in Part 2 of her four-part Catron County Centennial History, posted publicly by the Catron County Historical Society, April 2022.

About this edition

University of Arizona Press, 1970. Kaywaykla was a descendant of Victorio.

Connections

  • Victorio — the leader whose 1880 raid killed James C. Cooney
  • Eve Ball — who recorded it; Indeh — her larger collection
  • Catron County Centennial History — Debbie Lee — the settler account this answers