Military Debacle In Cottonwood Wash The Apache Ambush Of Captain Frank Millar And Assistant Surgeon Benjamin Tappan, Jr. (Cover Title)

HAMILTON, DOUG, BERNDT KUHN, LARRY LUDWIG

Publication: Published by the Tucson Corral of the Westerners, 2009, Tucson

First edition. 4to. Pictorial wrappers, 27 pp. [including covers], prologue, double columns, illustrated mostly from photographs [some in color], maps, portraits, acknowledgements, author profiles, appendices, notes. The story of an Apache ambush in March 1866 that took the lives of soldiers who had left Fort Yuma for a 250 mile journey to Camp Grant. Millar and Tappan Jr., who were traveling with a small detachment of soldiers, were ambushed by Apache warriors, likely taking advantage of terrain and concealment. Millar, Tappan and most, if not all, of the detachment were killed. Conflicts like this were part of a larger pattern of resistance by Apache groups against U.S. expansion, forced relocation, and military presence in the Southwest. These skirmishes contributed to a long and brutal cycle of reprisals and campaigns on both sides. Fine copy.