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Their names resound in Arizona history and pepper the state map, but few people know the tangled history that surrounds the “Apache Wars.” Half of the active U.S. Army descended on the territory to combat just a handful of Indigenous warriors. Ironically, the Apache peoples of the Southwest had once welcomed the arrival of the Americans as a buffer against Mexico, which regularly attached Apache settlements — but then American miners and loggers began to encroach, and a defensive war turned into a terrible guerrilla campaign that lasted a quarter-century.

In this talk, Gregory McNamee, who has written about the Apache Wars for Encyclopaedia Britannica and other publications, unravels the complex story of the conflict and the decades of uneasy peace that followed.

Gregory is a writer, editor, publisher and photographer. He is the author of 40 books and more than 6,000 articles. He has explored every corner of Arizona as a writer, historian, and film devotee. He is a contributing editor to the Encyclopedia Britannica and a research fellow and a lecturer at the University of Arizona.

This presentation was made possible through the Arizona Humanities AZ Speaks Program.