Captive children.(excerpts from the 'Apache Diaries')(Excerpt)

From: Journal of the Southwest | Date: March 22, 2001 | Copyright information

"Captive Children" is a longer version of one of the chapters in my book The Apache Diaries. It appears in part 4 of that book following the conclusion of Grennie's Mexico diaries and begins to tell the story of my own search for survivors and captive children of the Sierra Madre Apaches.

Some background on these people is necessary to understand references in this chapter. The Sierra Madre Apaches were a people thought by most Americans to exist no longer. They were the...

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