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"Cochise" is an instrumental piece in the album Guitars, by Mike Oldfield. Audioslave's debut single "Cochise" is named after the chief. In an interview, guitarist Tom Morello said that Cochise was "the last great American Indian chief to die free and absolutely unconquered. When several members of his family were captured, tortured, and hanged ...
Brokering peace with Apache Chief Cochise Thomas Jefferson Jeffords (January 1, 1832 – February 19, 1914) [ 1 ] was a United States Army scout, Indian agent , prospector, and superintendent of overland mail in the Arizona Territory .
Cochise's subsequent war of vengeance, in the form of numerous raids and murders, was the beginning of the 25-year-long Apache Wars. This incident led to the awarding of the Medal of Honor that is chronologically for the earliest action, to Bernard J.D. Irwin; despite the medal being created during the Civil War, ex-post-facto awards for action ...
Chief of Minneconjou teton lakota Indians, signed the treaty of fort Laramie in 1868. Father of Touch the Clouds and Spotted Elk, uncle to Crazy Horse: Captain Jack: c. 1837–1873 1860s–1870s Modoc: Mangas Coloradas: c. 1793–1863 1820s–1850s Apache: Cochise: c. 1805–1874 1860s–1870s Apache: Cornplanter: c. 1750s–1831 1816–1831 ...
Naiche is played by Rex Reason in Douglas Sirk's film Taza, Son of Cochise. Naiche identified as "Chief Nachez" was a character in Season 6 Episode 22 of The Life And Legend of Wyatt Earp. This episode aired on March 7, 1961. In the episode the Chief Nachez character turns to Wyatt Earp for help in stopping the selling of liquor to members of ...
Chihuahua was a protege of Cochise, fought under Cochise orders, and he surrendered with Cochise in 1872 going to live on the San Carlos Reservation in southern Arizona, where he became first sergeant of a company of Apache Scouts in 1880 under Lieutenant James A. Maney. [1]
The Mayor of Tuscon Arizona in a newspaper article for the [1] stated that "Cochise" was a mispronunciation of his true name "Chiz". Chiz means wood, and the great Apache Chief was frequently addressed as "Mr. Wood". "Chiz was so named from being so dull in boyhood, wooden headed like."
In the Arizona Territory of 1868, the Apaches, led by Cochise (Michael Keep), are on the warpath. Army Captain Bruce Coburn (Audie Murphy) is tasked with escorting homesteaders to Apache Wells where they can concentrate their defense against the Apaches. But there is dissension in the ranks as some of the men under Coburn’s command feel they ...