The Dread Apache - That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest by Merrill Pingree Freeman audiobook.
Genre: history
Written by Arizona pioneer and local historian Merrill Pingree Freeman, The Dread Apache - That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest is a brisk, episode-driven look at life on the late-19th-century frontier, when travel, ranching, and mining in southern Arizona could turn deadly in an instant. Freeman strings together vivid vignettes of raids, ambushes, and narrow escapes, drawing on incidents that circulated through newspapers, military posts, and settler memory. Soldiers, scouts, stage passengers, judges, and ranch families move through a harsh landscape of mountain passes and desert waterholes where danger can arrive without warning. Along the way, Freeman spotlights notorious figures such as the Apache Kid and recounts cases that became touchstones for frontier fear and retaliation. Told in a direct, moralizing voice typical of its era, the book captures not only the violence of the Apache wars as settlers experienced them, but also how rumor, trauma, and local storytelling helped shape Arizona's early identity. It is a short, intense listening experience and a revealing artifact of how one community recorded its past.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:06:04) Chapter 02
(00:11:04) Chapter 03
(00:16:43) Chapter 04
(00:24:09) Chapter 05
(00:28:50) Chapter 06
(00:36:27) Chapter 07
(00:44:22) Chapter 08
(00:50:44) Chapter 09
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