Apache Nightmare: The Battle at Cibecue Creek

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In Apache Nightmare| Charles Collins tells the story of the Battle at Cibecue Creek| a pivotal event in the Apache Wars. On August 28| 1881| Col. Eugene Asa Carr left Fort Apache| Arizona Territory| with two cavalry troops and a company of Indian scouts. Their aim was to arrest a Cibecue Apache medicine man| Nock-ay-det-klinne| rumored to be inciting his followers against whites in the area. The arrest at Cibecue Creek was uneventful| but as Carr’s forces returned to Fort Apache| the medicine man’s followers attacked. The Apaches were soon joined by the Indian scouts| marking the skirmish as the only wholesale mutiny of an Indian scout company in U.S. military history. Basing his account on extensive primary sources| including testimony from Apaches themselves| Collins describes the events leading up to the incident| recreates the battle| and analyzes its aftermath.