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APACHERIA

n your August 2021 issue I see articles by Bill Cavaliere and Ron J. Jackson Jr. that dispel some of the untruths about Geronimo’s surrender. Author Jackson hit the nail on the head in calling the Southwest “Apacheria.” A large part of west Texas was also the turf of the Lipan Apaches. That’s why the mountains that supply the spring at Balmorhea are called the Apache Mountains. The one thing said that is news to me is the statement that the White Mountain Apaches did not get along with the Chiricahuas. And I’d like to point out that Juh was

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