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Mexican teamsters. After torturing and killing the nine Mexicans, he took the three Americans hostage, offering them in exchange for his family, but Bascom maintained that he would accept nothing other than the return of the boy and cattle. On February 7, Cochise and his men attacked Bascom's soldiers while they were fetching water.
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to meet with him. Suspicious of Bascom's intentions, Cochise brought with him his brother
Coyuntwa, two nephews, his wife and his two children. At the meeting Cochise claimed he knew nothing of the raid. Doubting Cochise's honesty, Bascom attempted to imprison him and his family in a tent to be held
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between 1965 and 1967; English translations by Egmont/Methuen in 1977 and 1978). The plot and characters differ from the actual historic events (i.e. name of the kidnapped child, tribe of captors, rank of Bascom, name of fort,
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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 taken before the medals creation were authorized.
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Mexicans to the Americans. Cochise's subsequent war of vengeance, in the form of numerous raids and murders, was the beginning of the 25-year-long
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and a large group of infantry to attempt to recover the boy. Bascom and his men were unable to locate the boy or the tribe. Because Ward said the kidnappers had gone east towards the
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The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
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Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars
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Once They Moved Like The Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars
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Utley, Robert M. "The Bascom Affair: A Reconstruction."
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Sacks, Benjamin H. "New Evidence on the Bascom Affair."
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