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By Charles B. Gatewood
Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853–1896), an informed Virginian, served within the 6th U.S. Cavalry because the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood used to be mostly approved through the local peoples with whom he labored due to his efforts to appreciate their cultures. It used to be this connection that Gatewood shaped with the Indians, and with Geronimo and Naiche specifically, that resulted in his involvement within the final Apache struggle and his paintings for Indian rights. Realizing that he had extra event facing local peoples than different lieutenants serving at the frontier, Gatewood made up our minds to checklist his reports. even if he died ahead of he accomplished his undertaking, the paintings he left in the back of is still a huge firsthand account of his existence as a commander of Apache scouts and as an army commandant of the White Mountain Indian Reservation. Louis Kraft offers Gatewood’s formerly unpublished account, punctuating it with an creation, extra textual content that fills within the gaps in Gatewood’s narrative, certain notes, and an epilogue. Kraft’s paintings bargains new historical past info on Gatewood and discusses the manuscript as a clean account of the way Gatewood seen the occasions during which he took half.
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The party as it advanced, would be surrounded by a cordon of watchful vedettes to prevent surprise & gain knowledge of the enemies’ movements. These wily guerillas always took good care to have accurate information as to the numbers of their victims & their means for defending themselves, so that whenever they attacked, success was pretty well assured. Then at the most propitious moment—generally at the break of day, a surprise—a rapid & furious attack, accompanied by the most demonical yells. The surprised party, paralyzed with fear [&] unable to make a concerted defense, massacred.
Of those who are in proximity to Indian reservations, some who are moved by apprehensions of danger from their depredations, and most who are influenced by greed for what is invaluable of their possessions are convinced that confinement to the most remote and barren localities, with capital punishment for every discontent, is the only means of safety, while that far distant theorist presents a prompt and happy solution in acts of Congress and the donation of a one hundred and sixty acre farm. From some considerable experience with them, I am convinced that Indians are no different from other persons in that they are governed, actuated, and influenced by self-interest—self-interest as they see it, not as their covetous neighbor or their far distant adviser may see it for them, but as it presents itself to the instincts, tastes, and habits with which they are endowed.
This] lead[s] to restlessness and disturbance. With them, as with all other people, the possession of property is a potent restraint against disorder; not so much the possession of land, in which they do not as yet realize proprietorship, but movable property, something tangible, stock and goods for comfort and convenience, and everything which will encourage them in its acquirement and afford them opportunity to accumulate, is more than anything else in the direction of their civilization. Since my return from Mexico with the hostile Apaches two years ago, every effort has been made to procure the erection of mills upon their reservation, to dispossess old intruders [from the reservation] and to exclude new ones, to have more traders licensed among them and discontinue the monopoly by one, to see that healthy and suitable stock was furnished, and to give them a ready cash market for all their surplus produce.