The Death of Blind Thunder

By John J. Law

His name was Teogroh and he was a hero to the Apache nation. He was known by many other names but the white men knew him as Blind Thunder. Blind Thunder had earned that name when a bullet struck him in the eye but he miraculously survived. The event would define Teogroh for the rest of his life and how he would conduct himself to the white men and his native people. Blind Thunder was a great warrior of renown but this story is not about him. His spirit does linger and hover over it, as the wind may carry an eagle through the air. It is the eagle itself however that soars through the skies and ultimately, the eagle in this story is not Blind Thunder. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.C. Hulsey Books
• Release date: Dec 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215642627

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One: Not The End

His name was Teogroh and he was a hero to the Apache nation. He was known by many other names but the white men knew him as Blind Thunder. Blind Thunder had earned that name when a bullet struck him in the eye but he miraculously survived. The event would define Teogroh for the rest of his life and how he would conduct himself to the white men and his native people. Blind Thunder was a great warrior of renown but this story is not about him. His spirit does linger and hover over it, as the wind may carry an eagle through the air. It is the eagle itself however that soars through the skies and ultimately the eagle in this story is not Blind Thunder.

However, it would be best to speak more of Teogroh here to see what truly happened and what led to events unfolding as they were.

Deep inside, Teogroh was a man of peace and did not relish the idea of violence and war with the white man. It was not because he was afraid. It was simply because Teogroh always wanted a quiet life for himself, a life that fate seemed to always deny him.

Teogroh was a warrior of skill and renown and because of this, he had the ear of Geronimo, one of the greatest, if not the fiercest of the Apache war chiefs. Geronimo had fought the white man for many years, and had escaped capture numerous times. It seemed as though Geronimo would never stop fighting the white man, but Teogroh did not want war. He did not relish Apache nor white men dying needlessly in battle. If he had his way, both sides would co-exist peacefully and there would be no war. In better times, such a man as Teogroh would be hailed as a peacemaker of sorts, but this was not to be so now. In these turbulent times, Teogroh made enemies with men from both sides, as the war seemed to have no end in sight.

Teogroh's enemies wanted him dead as they all had their reasons for the war to continue. None of them managed to kill him, because of his great skill with a gun, a bow, a tomahawk, or any weapon that favored either Apache or white man. He was a master of all of war's instruments. Like some talented musician he could play every one of them and create a symphony of nothing but pure mayhem and chaos. It was something that he was definitely good at, but he never wanted to use his skills. However, life always had a way of bringing out the music from within him.

Although he wanted peace, a man like Blind Thunder was always thrust into war and violence. He worked as a hired gun when it suited him and his interests. When a small railroad company was entangled in a messy railroad war with two other much larger companies,