Paul Andrew Hutton’s “The Apache Wars” is a major work of history on a much-neglected subject. Ask most any American to name our longest war, and they’re bound to reply Iraq or Afghanistan.

Other historians have contended that the Apache Wars began in 1847 or 1848, during the Mexican-American War. And some have contended that the conflict did not completely end until 1924, when a ...

On a March day in 1851 after he and friends had spent time trading goods with residents of the Mexican town of Janos, a young Apache warrior named Goyahkla (One Who Yawns) returned to his home in ...

War was all he knew. Even as a child, Geronimo had a bounty on his scalp, which was worth 25 pesos to the Mexican government. Apache people of the Southwest were surrounded by colonial European ...

William H. Emory served in two wars but is best remembered for leading the expedition that mapped out the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border and shaped images of the Southwest.

The Apache culture in the Southwest continued unaltered for three centuries, but when the United States acquired New Mexico, in 1848, aggressive farmers, miners, and prospectors pushed into the ...

The Apache or Indian Wars would last four more decades, with the Apache, led by chiefs such as Cochise and Geronimo, who would only give himself up in the 1880s.

Thursday marked the 175th anniversary of the signing of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War, winning the U.S. what is now most of Arizona, along with the entirety or parts of several ...