Navajo Scouts During the Apache Wars by John Lewis Taylor

Author:John Lewis Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Navajo scouts the Pedro brothers. Ben Wittick, courtesy of Place of Governors Photo Archive, New Mexico History Museum (NMHM/DCS), #015709.

Captain Benjamin H. Rogers of the Thirteenth Infantry and Navajo scout Largo, Fort Wingate. Ben Wittick, 1880s, courtesy of Place of Governors Photo Archive, New Mexico History Museum (NMHM/ DCS), #015717.

Apache scouts at Fort Wingate. Courtesy of National Archives and Records, Washington, D.C., #111-SC-87797.

Miles set about developing a force of proven “Indian fighters” in the regular army, sending them on search-and-destroy missions to kill or capture as many of the hostiles as possible. He also planned to work in conjunction with Mexican forces to keep Geronimo and his allies on the move, not allowing them to rest until they were all dead or had surrendered unconditionally.

For the summer campaign of 1886, General Miles amassed a force of 5,000 cavalry and infantry regular troops, 500 Apache scouts and 150 Navajo scouts. He organized his forces into flying columns of cavalry supported by infantry and kept them in touch with one another through an extensive network of heliograph stations. While in Mexico, this force was supported by more than 1,000 troops of the Mexican army accompanied by Tarahumara Indian scouts.180

Several Navajo scouts recalled the summer of 1886 and related their stories to U.S. Pension Office officials some thirty years later.

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