Victorio's War (1879–1880): Guerrilla Campaign in Grant County
Lead sentence (present tense): "Victorio's War (1879–1880) was a major Apache guerrilla campaign fought in southwestern New Mexico that directly affected Grant County [2]."
LEAD: Victorio's War (1879–1880) was a major Apache guerrilla campaign fought in southwestern New Mexico that directly affected Grant County [2].
LEAD: Victorio's War (1879–1880) was a major Apache guerrilla campaign fought in southwestern New Mexico that directly affected Grant County [2].
BODY (one paragraph, past tense): Led by Victorio, the great Warm Springs Apache (Chihenne) leader, the campaign is considered one of the most effective guerrilla campaigns in American history [1]. Victorio's band fought U.S. and Mexican forces across the mountains of Grant County, including the Black Range, Mogollons, and Animas Mountains [1], with battles also recorded in the Mimbres Mountains [5][3]. After fleeing the San Carlos reservation, the band fought through the Black Range and Mimbres Mountains before the war ended in the massacre at Tres Castillos, Chihuahua [3]. James Kaywaykla, who survived the war as a child, later provided one of the few Apache-side accounts of the fighting in southwestern New Mexico [3]. In one engagement, Parker's scouts surrounded Victorio's camp below a box canyon on the main Palomas, but the Indians escaped during the night, leaving their dead behind [4].
LEAD: Victorio's War (1879–1880) was a major Apache guerrilla campaign in southwestern New Mexico that directly affected Grant County [2].
BODY: Led by Victorio, the great Warm Springs Apache (Chihenne) leader, it ranks as one of the most effective guerrilla campaigns in American history [1]. Victorio's band fought U.S. and Mexican forces across Grant County's mountains, including the Black Range, Mogollons, and Animas Mountains [1], with fighting also in the Mimbres Mountains [5][3]. After fleeing the San Carlos reservation, the band battled through the Black Range and Mimbres Mountains before the war ended in the massacre at Tres Castillos, Chihuahua [3]. Child survivor James Kaywaykla later recorded one of the few Apache-side accounts of these campaigns [3]. In one clash, Parker's scouts surrounded Victorio's camp below a box canyon on the main Palomas, but the Indians slipped away overnight, leaving their dead on the field [4].
Sources
- Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches (1974) ↗ · detailsDan Thrapp's classic study of Victorio, the great Warm Springs Apache leader who waged one of the most effective guerrilla campaigns in American history. Focuses on Victorio's band — the Chihenne — and their struggle against U.S. and Mexica…
- From Cochise to Geronimo: The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874-1886 (2010) ↗ · detailsThe definitive account of the final decade of Chiricahua Apache resistance, covering the period from Cochise's death through Geronimo's final surrender. Focuses heavily on the Warm Springs (Chihenne) band under Victorio, the San Carlos rese…
- In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache (1970) ↗ · detailsOral history from James Kaywaykla, a Warm Springs Apache who as a child survived Victorio's War (1879-1880). Recounts the flight of Victorio's band from the San Carlos reservation, the battles through the Black Range and Mimbres Mountains o…
- Parker’s scouts, below the box canyon on… (1891)Parker’s scouts, below the box canyon on the main Palomas, surrounded old Victorio’s camp and engaged with the hostiles. After the smoke of battle had cleared away, it was dis- covered, that during the night th…
- Indeh: An Apache Odyssey (1980) ↗ · detailsA companion oral history to In the Days of Victorio, focusing on the Warm Springs Apache experience after Victorio's death — the exile to Florida, internment at Mount Vernon Barracks, and eventual settlement in Oklahoma. Includes detailed a…
- Roman Chiquito inherits the valor of his… (1891)Roman Chiquito inherits the valor of his grandfather and the progressive ideas of his uncle. From his boyhood the voice and ex- ample of Roman Chiquito were always found on the side of peace ; and when Victorio…
- Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-05-08 (1891)d on the unprotected settlements of southern New Mexico deluged our soil with the blood of three hundred slaugh- tered citizens, it was Roman Chiquito who rode day and night to warn the settlers in the vic…
- When Victorio defeated Hatch and whip-… (1891)When Victorio defeated Hatch and whip- ped the ninth cavalry at San Andreas, it was Roman Chiquito who tenderly nursed and cared for his friend. Captain Henry Carrol, of the Ninth Cavalry, when that gallant off…