Caprock Chronicles: The Mescalero Apaches in West Texas
Caprock Chronicles: The Mescalero Apaches in West Texas Sherry Robinson Editor’s Note: The Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker a retired librarian from Texas Tech University Library. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article is by Sherry Robinson, the author of “I Fought a Good Fight: A History of the Lipan Apaches.” When the government created a reservation for Mescalero Apaches in southeastern New Mexico in 1873, near Fort Stanton, it soon drew to it Lipans and a group the Spanish called Llanero Apaches. The Army and Apaches alike hoped for peace, but th...