Was sponsored by the kansas city local library. Prof. Hutton good evening. Welcome. My name is eli paul. It is my honor to introduce our speaker, paul andrew hutton. In keeping with his profession as a university professor, we are going to have a pop quiz. One question, pass fail. Here is the question. What do jeff chandler, charles bronson, rock hudson, and the incredibly blueeyed Burt Lancaster all have in common . [indiscernible] i think i hear the answer, and the answer is all these men played Apache Indian leaders in the movies. Jeff chandler played cochise, rock hudson played the son of cochise. Bronson was a shadow chatto. For extra credit, answer this. What made those roles so attractive to these actors . Could it be the epic nature of their struggle . Keep those questions in mind. Also keep those names in mind. Maybe not the faces. The people may reappear as paul hutton tells us about our war with the apache tribes, americas longest. It all began with an apache rate and the kidnapping of an arizona ranchers boy in 1861 and lasted more than a quarter of a century. The fighting only ended with the 1886 surrender of geronimo, who by the way, was played by a real indian in the 1993 movie. Paul hutton looks back at this largely overlooked chapter in our history. This is an epic story by an accomplished narrator, a highly regarded professor of history at the university of new mexico and an awardwinning author and Television Personality who has been in more than 200 television documentaries. Pauls gift is his ability to navigate the two great rivers of western history and Popular Culture of the west. As the former executive director of the western History Association and the western writers of america, he has roped in many students like me to help tell the story of the american west. Now he has done so himself and his magnificent book, the apache wars the hunt for geronimo, the apache kid, and the captive boy who started the longest war in american history. Please welcome paul hutton. [applause] prof. Hutton thank you so much. It is great to be in kansas city. With all due respect for the great state of texas, there is no better barbecue. [applause] prof. Hutton not just in the united states, not just in the world, but in the universe. [laughter] [applause] prof. Hutton i understand that there is a contention amongst the citizens of this fine city over which is the best barbecue. And i have very Firm Opinions on that myself, which i will keep to myself. [laughter] prof. Hutton since i am here to make friends. The story of the apache wars is a story in which it is hard to inject humor. And i do say that often when i speak, my talks tend to be humorous, but im afraid it is difficult to have humor in this particular story. The story im going to tell you is a particularly grim and tragic episode of the apache wars. Folks often ask me how i got interested in this topic. I am interested in a lot of western history, of course, and have been all my life. I got hooked in 1955 by walt disney, who converted a lot of children over to history. It was the program Davy Crockett that helps me and that hooked me. At the end of this program, i was thinking we could do all the verses of the song if you would like to. [laughter] prof. Hutton of course, that was the great heyday of the western imprint on television and film. One third of all hollywoods product were westerns in the 1950s and 1960s. Someone played a blueeyed geronimo in the 1960 film of the same name. A line western history was portrayed on the Silver Screen and on the television screen. And in writing. A lot of that writing was popular writing, so my challenge in writing the apache wars was different from what i had done in most of my career. I have done a lot of television. I have written for television, and a lot of popular magazine articles, but i had never written a book for a broad, popular audience, so this was a different journey that i went on. It was very challenging, took water years to research took four years to research and complete. It is doing well and im proud of it and relieved to have it done. I would say was story about that. I followed the numbers religiously, book sales, and i am waiting with bated breath for every review. I knew the wall street journal was going to review my book in their fabulous saturday book section, which i subscribe to come and it arrives at my door. So that saturday morning when i knew it was coming, i got up at 6 00 in the morning. The paper had not even been delivered yet. My bunny slippers on which i only take off to teach my classes. I padded out in my row in my slippers, got my cup of coffee, i was so nervous, i couldnt even open the paper. I saw the review was by s c gwynn, who has written a fabulous book about the comanches. In fact, the success of that book had gotten me my contract to write my book. He is a hero of mine and i often wanted to take them out. I have never met him, but i want to get him a steak dinner and im a few drinks and thank him. I start reading the review. It is a very positive review. I must say, all the reviews have been very positive, although the academic reviews are not in yet. But im reading it, and in his it is the third paragraph that begins, carrier like terrierlike, hutton follows every skirmish and battle. Four years of my life, i am not his and his i used to be. Four years, locked in a room all by myself, and im not really good company. And im compared to a small mammal. [laughter] prof. Hutton and it is worse, because at christmas, just the christmas before seven or eight months ago, we had acquired from the albuquerque Animal Shelter a little carrier terrier, who we named annie oakley. And she has cut a swathe through every piece of furniture through our yard, through our irrigation system, through every possession we have, a swathe that would make attila the honda blush. So we have changed her name to chupacabra, the spanish name for double dog. Devil dog. So i had a clear sense of what it terrier was, and being compared to one wounded immediately. I still hope to take them out one day, but he is getting iced the tea. I became interested in the story of the apache is when i was a kid, not long after i became fascinated by David Crockett and started reading Popular Western history and childrens books on the west