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Cochise Meets Clio |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Ronald McCoy |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,272 Words, 14,086 Characters |
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COCHISE: CHIRICAHUA APACHE CHIEF
Edwin R. Sweeney
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991
408 pp., $22.95
Native Americans often excite crowd interest, typically cursory and hazy, brief in nature and content. Occasionally, a notable individual emerges from the bitterly suppressed, long-repressed tribal milieu, from a past most folks would just as soon forget or try to glamorize (which can amount to the same thing). Among the specters capable of conjuring up memories of an epoch often dim in outline and grim in texture is the subject of Edwin R. Sweeney's Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief.
Cochise was born around 1805, either in southeastern Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains or in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. At the time of his birth, Spain claimed Cochis...
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... sense of having encountered a real life.
Someday, Native Americans may be regarded as people, not pure and simple like cardboard cutouts, but complex and alive. Which is why anyone interested in this biography's subject--that gifted, intriguing, enigmatic Chiricahua whose spirit still infuses the mountains where he is buried--must witness the momentous meeting between Cochise and Clio.
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