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Apache George person

born: [1881-01-01,1882-01-01)died/dissolved: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)id: p_apache-george_86f589

also known as: Apache, Pachie

Probable 70%
Summary:  Old acquaintance who protected the narrator and his party in Deming.
Completeness: 90/100 Grade A
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Claims (18)

adapted_to

Spanish colonial policies
cited from Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule (2016)
Examines how Apache groups in the Spanish borderlands, including the Chiricahua and Mimbreno bands, adapted to Spanish colonial policies through raiding, trading, and strategic alliance. Challenges the narrative of Apache resistance as purely military, showing instead a complex w…

arrived_in

the city
cited from It was about night when we had completed… (1891)
It was about night when we had completed our arrangements, and Pachie advised us not to try to leave the city that night, but to pull out about two hundred yards and camp, which advice we followed. There were four of us as I have said befor…

assisted

narrator
cited from On making known to Apache our wish to… (1891)
On making known to Apache our wish to buy a wagon and team and camping outfit he told us he would look around and see what he could do to assist us. He took us to a delapi- dated old tent and told us to remain “right thar” till he return…

engaged_in

raiding
cited from Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule (2016)
Examines how Apache groups in the Spanish borderlands, including the Chiricahua and Mimbreno bands, adapted to Spanish colonial policies through raiding, trading, and strategic alliance. Challenges the narrative of Apache resistance as purely military, showing instead a complex w…
trading
cited from Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule (2016)
Examines how Apache groups in the Spanish borderlands, including the Chiricahua and Mimbreno bands, adapted to Spanish colonial policies through raiding, trading, and strategic alliance. Challenges the narrative of Apache resistance as purely military, showing instead a complex w…
strategic alliance
cited from Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule (2016)
Examines how Apache groups in the Spanish borderlands, including the Chiricahua and Mimbreno bands, adapted to Spanish colonial policies through raiding, trading, and strategic alliance. Challenges the narrative of Apache resistance as purely military, showing instead a complex w…

fought_in

Indian raids
cited from A rumor to the effect that seven Indians… (1890)
A rumor to the effect that seven Indians were seen near Cook’s Peak by four different men comes to us through apparently reliable channels. If this is correct it would seem that there is more than one band of marauding Apaches abroad in the l…
skirmish with soldiers
cited from shot, hundred shot, no hit Apache… (1891)
shot, hundred shot, no hit Apache. Bye and bye Apache him get in corn field, corn high, bullet he come zip! zip! Soldier he come, hun- dred soldier, five hundred soldier; then Apache he make hole in ground bury himself in hole. Soldier he com…

known_to

unnamed party member
cited from Our destination was the Burro mountains… (1891)
Our destination was the Burro mountains some sixty or seventy miles from Deming and we had our choice either to walk or purchase a conveyance and ride, but as walking was out of the question, we had decided to buy a wagon and team and camping…

lived_at

the city
cited from It was about night when we had completed… (1891)
It was about night when we had completed our arrangements, and Pachie advised us not to try to leave the city that night, but to pull out about two hundred yards and camp, which advice we followed. There were four of us as I have said befor…
cited from Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-03-20 (1891) · +4 more
wn in the desert. The town was probably three hundred yards from the depot, and as soon as the cars stopped a crowd of probably one hundred of about the worst looking speci- mens of humanity to be found on earth, ran down to the railroad…

occupation

fruit peddler
cited from afterwards… (1891)
not mo- lested. I returned to Doming about three months afterwards. What a change I found, a deputy sheriff had been appointed, his name was Dan Tucker and he was certainly the right man, for if he wanted to arrest a desperado he was sure t…
fruit peddler
cited from Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-03-20 (1891)
not mo- lested. I returned to Doming about three months afterwards. What a change I found, a deputy sheriff had been appointed, his name was Dan Tucker and he was certainly the right man, for if he wanted to arrest a desperado he was sure t…

witnessed

protected narrator's party from hostile crowd in Deming1881-04
cited from I have been in frontier towns quite often… (1891)
wn in the desert. The town was probably three hundred yards from the depot, and as soon as the cars stopped a crowd of probably one hundred of about the worst looking speci- mens of humanity to be found on earth, ran down to the railroad…
narrator's party in need of protection in a dangerous mining camp
cited from As soon as Apache recognized an old… (1891) · +1 more
ened to espy an old acquain- tance in the crowd by the name of Apache George to whom he had extended some kind- ness at some previous time. As soon as Apache recognized an old friend in one of us he took us under his protec- tion and g…
narrator felt eased after being taken under Apache George's wing
cited from As soon as Apache George took us under… (1891)
As soon as Apache George took us under his wing I felt easier and began to get my “second wind” as it were, so that I was able to look at the situation in a little more rational manner.
peddling fruit at the depot
cited from I found where three months before the… (1891)
I found where three months before the only improvements was a small tent, large stores carrying a stock of several thousand dollars in value. A number of the “bad men” were either killed in quarrels among themselves or by the deputy sheriff. Apach…
soldiers searching for him
cited from shot, hundred shot, no hit Apache… (1891)
shot, hundred shot, no hit Apache. Bye and bye Apache him get in corn field, corn high, bullet he come zip! zip! Soldier he come, hun- dred soldier, five hundred soldier; then Apache he make hole in ground bury himself in hole. Soldier he com…

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Chiricahua band member_of Apache George
Mimbreno band member_of Apache George

Sources (13)

A rumor to the effect that seven Indians…

1890 · newspaper · public-domain

afterwards…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

As soon as Apache George took us under…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

As soon as Apache recognized an old…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

I found where three months before the…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

I have been in frontier towns quite often…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

It was about night when we had completed…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

On making known to Apache our wish to…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

On making known to Apache our wish to…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain · details

Our destination was the Burro mountains…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

shot, hundred shot, no hit Apache…

1891 · newspaper · public-domain

Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule

Babcock, Matthew · 2016 · book · rights_reserved · details

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