Court-Martial of Apache Kid: The Renegade of Renegades. By Clare V. McKanna Jr. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2009. xxiv, 192 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-89672-652-9.)
2010; Oxford University Press; Volume: 97; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/jahist/97.1.193
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Latin American and Latino Studies
ResumoIn Court-Martial of Apache Kid, Clare V. McKanna Jr. shows both the gulf between Apache and settler values in Arizona during the 1880s and the U.S. Army's inability to create the conditions for satisfactory coexistence. Thousands of Apaches on the reservation around the San Carlos agency on the Gila River depended on army rations, but they remained almost wholly unassimilated. And although Apache scouts were nominally enlisted soldiers, attracted by the prospect of earning $25 per month, very little of army life seemed to rub off on them. For many army officers, the scouts merely epitomized Apache savagery, but without them the “hostiles” would have been untouchable. Apache Kid's fame rests on his image as a mysterious renegade marauder during the 1890s through the 1920s, even though he may have died before 1900. He vanished into the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico in 1889, after a series of arrests for drunken and disorderly behavior, trials, and incarcerations. As the army attempted to enforce government policy regarding Apache groups, Kid's legendary elusiveness contrasted sharply with the fate of other renegades who were tracked and killed by soldiers or posses—or that of Geronimo, who was captured in 1886 and imprisoned in Florida.
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