When did Apache George live?

Apache George was born around 1881-01-01 and died around 1891-01-01. Documented in Grant County, New Mexico.

What is Apache George associated with?

Documented relationships include: witnessed, engaged_in, fought_in. 18 claims extracted from primary sources.

What sources cite Apache George?

13 primary sources cite this person, including: A rumor to the effect that seven Indians… (1890); afterwards… (1891); As soon as Apache George took us under… (1891); and 10 more.

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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.

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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)

trading

cited from Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule (2016)

strategic alliance

cited from Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule (2016)

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)

Deming

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)

witnessed

protected narrator's party from hostile crowd in Deming— 1881-04

cited from I have been in frontier towns quite often… (1891)

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)