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Apache leader's legend grows under close study ; "Victorio" by Kathleen P. Chamberlain University of Oklahoma Press, $24.95, 272 pp. "Avenging Victorio" by Dave DeWitt Rio Grande Books, $24.95, 258 pp.
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Fifteen years after the end of the Civil War, the U.S. military
found itself engaged in another conflict, this one in southern New
Mexico. It was a messy, brutal struggle that sent U.S. generals
chasing elusive ghosts across a vast, unsettled battlefield
encompassing thousands of square miles.
The military men -- many of them veterans of the War Between the
States -- were at once outmanuevered, confounded, left emptyhanded
and rankled by frequent failure.
It was 1880, and their...
