Mickey Free: Apache Captive, Interpreter, And Indian Scout.

ALLAN RADBOURNE

Publication: The Arizona Historical Society, 2005, Tucson

First edition. 8vo. Signed on the title page by the author and Joyce L. Jauch. Laid-in is a Christmas card with the original mailing envelope from the author in his home in England to an Arizona bookseller. Bright orange cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine, viii [2], 302 [1] pp., introduction, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, afterword, notes, bibliography, index. Mickey Free was the name given to Felix Telles, who was carried off at age thirteen by an Apache raiding party in 1861. Mickey Free was transformed into an Apache warrior and eventually served as Indian Scout for the U.S. Army. He moved with ease among three cultures and participated in the important events of the Indian Wars in the Southwest. This definitive biography is a major contribution to the Apache Indian War era in Arizona and the Southwest. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 49630