Posts Tagged ‘Bosque Redondo’

Introducing: James Carleton

James Henry Carleton produced more primary document material than the other eight protagonists in The Three-Cornered War combined.  As commander of the 1st California from 1861-2, and then the Department of New Mexico from 1862-67, Carleton wrote copious letters and reports to his superiors and his subordinates. His words were reprinted and . . .

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Introducing: Juanita

Juanita was not one of the original protagonists of The Three-Cornered War.  Initially I planned to write about her husband, Manuelito, a powerful Navajo headman who had a long history of resisting Spanish, Mexican, and American incursions into Diné Bikéyah, the Navajo homeland. I wrote a chapter about him, and had nearly completed . . .

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