

The events of February 1861 as I have recounted them are accurate within the bounds of historical controversy. COCHISE, September 1871, shortly before his final surrender to President Grant’s personal representativeĬochise surrendered in October 1871. The Apaches were once a great nation they are now but a few … many have died in battle … Tell me, if the Virgin Mary has walked throughout all the land, why has she never entered the lodge of the Apache?*

Why is it the Apaches want to die-that they carry their lives in their fingernails? They roam over the hills and plains and want the heavens to fall on them. After many summers I walked again and found another race of people who had come to take it. *When I was young, I walked all over this country and saw no people other than Apaches. Standing orders of General Carleton to all men under his command during the “Slaughtering Sixties”

The women and children are to be taken prisoner, but, of course, they are not to be killed. COLONEL BAYLOR, Confederate Governor of the Arizona Territory of President Jefferson Davis … every Apache man, wherever found, should be killed on sight and the women and children sold into slavery. But as war raged between the white man and the Apache, he found himself torn between duty to his people and a forbidden love he could not resist and could not live without. Vowing to teach her every sensual pleasure, he set out to tame the fiery spirit of the blond beauty who had stolen his soul. nothing could stop him from making her his reluctant bride. No matter that he had chosen the Indian way.no matter that he could hang for touching her. Suddenly she was at the mercy of an arrogant halfbreed whose forbidden passion she dared not admit she wanted to taste.įrom the moment he saw her, Jack branded Candice his woman. But rescue came from a savage.Jack Savage, the hard-muscled Indian warrior who both terrified and fascinated her. Beautiful Candice Carter enjoyed the attentions of every eligible man in the New Mexico Territory, until her reckless heart led her to near death in the desert.
