From 1886 to 1913, hundreds of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and
children lived and died as prisoners of war in Florida, Alabama,
and Oklahoma. Their names, faces, and lives have long been
forgotten by history, and for nearly one hundred years these
individuals have been nothing more than statistics in the history
of the United States' tumultuous war against the Chiricahua
Apache.Based on extensive archival research, From Fort Marion to
Fort Sill offers long-overdue documentation of the lives and fate
of many of these people. This outstanding reference work provides
individual biographies for hundreds of the Chiricahua Apache
prisoners of war, including those originally classified as POWs in
1886, infants who lived only a few days, children removed from
families and sent to Indian boarding schools, and second-generation
POWs who lived well into the twenty-first century. Their
biographies are often poignant and revealing, and more than 60
previously unpublished photographs give a further glimpse of their
humanity.This masterful documentary work, based on the unpublished
research notes of former Fort Sill historian Gillett Griswold, at
last brings to light the lives and experiences of hundreds of
Chiricahua Apaches whose story has gone untold for too long.