Apaches

Today was National Museum Day. We printed free tickets to seven museums, and saw three, the Arizona History Museum, the Arizona State Museum, and the Fort Lowell Museum. Great exhibits gave us an appreciation for the southwest and its history.

Fort Lowell was active from 1873 to about 1891 and was an outpost in the Apache Wars. Life was tough in those days without air conditioning and swimming pools, but the wives and children survived. Laundry Ladies earned $1.00 to $1.50 per soldier per month. Company Commanders on payday watched to see that each soldier paid his obligation.

We see here my copy of a photograph that is part of an exhibit at Fort Lowell Museum.

For at lest the past 500 years the Chiricahua Apaches have lived in southeastern Arizona, western New Mexico, and northern Mexico. The Chiricahua?s armed resistance to Europeans lasted over 250 years. In all the wars for the continent, the U.S. Army encountered no more formidable and implacable adversary. This is how the Chiricahua Apaches looked.