Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir

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What made Gatewood exceptional was the immense effort he put into understanding Indian cultures
Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir is the primary source memoir and testimony of Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853-96), an educated and remarkable Virginian who served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. What made Gatewood exceptional was the immense effort he put into understanding Indian cultures, and eventually, the drive for Indian rights. Independent modern scholar Louis Kraft rounds out Gatewood's perspective with additional commentary, extensive notes, and an epilogue. Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir is a unique and welcome supplement to American military history or Native American studies shelves.

2009-10-17 (Oregon, WI USA) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

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lt.charles b.gatewood&apache war memoir
will change the way a reader thinks about the apache war,s and geronimo in general,fantastic read!

2009-07-15 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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An Officer Worth Saluting
To any historian a good memoir provides a closer look at a person and the chronicled times. Thanks to Louis Kraft we all get a better look into Lt. Charles B. Gatewood- a key and often overlooked figure in the latter Apache Campaigns of the American Southwest.
Gatewood was quietly there with Alchesay, Victorio, Josanie, Tom Horn, Naiche, Al Sieber, Generals Crook and Miles, the 'Apache Kid' and, of course, Geronimo and more than just 'being there' he tried his best to make something worthy of his time and position. Interesting is that he was one of the few 'White eyes' that the Apaches trusted which says something more about the Army officer as a man. Most heroes are stellar at a distance but many lose their shine the closer they get to us. Gatewood though shone strong even when many around him didn't. No superman, just a man and soldier who tried to do the 'right thing' when it mattered and paid for it as a result.
Kraft doesn't get in the way of Gatewood's own words so what you have here is a plain spoken personal account and another closer look at the history we thought we knew. Using additional sources Kraft helped find Gatewood's voice so that what we get is an echo of the past worth listening to.
A solid resource and chronicle.

2009-07-10 | Writetrak (Seattle) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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Passed over and forgotten
A very enlightened overview of the shabby treatment accorded a young, caring and compassionate brilliant Officer. Sheds light on some major characters (Gen Crook)of the Apache wars whose behavior was less then stellar. Additionally gives really good insight into the nitty gritty of actual campaigning agains the Apaches. Tragic in the sense that had there been a few more persons with the attidude of Lt. Gatewood towards native americans we might today have a more diverse and vibrant native american culture then we do. Excellent read but for some of the stilted original victorian writing though that's easily overcome because of the excellent index and notes.

2009-01-12 | climber76 (south, Texas USA) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

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RECOGNITION AT LAST


Louis Kraft writes sensational books, my first knowledge of him came from GATEWOOD AND GERONIMO (New Mexico Press, 2000), which was also a History Book Club selection. And for being an "independant historian" he has turned out several very good books of history, this being a notable one.

Unless one has read on the Apache wars in Arizona Territory, 1878-1886, the name Charles B. Gatewood may have very little meaning. But finally due this book and the efforts of Mr. Kraft, Lt. Gatewood is at last receiving some well deserved historical attention.

Within a couple years of being posted to Arizona, Lt. Gatewood was in charge of the Apache Scouts and pretty much the key man concerning operational relations with the Apaches. Now, from Mr. Kraft and the University of Nebraska we can read Lt. Gatewood's 'recorded experiences', but only up to a point, for Lt. Gatewood died before he could complete them. What we receive here though is a valuable primary source printed for the first time.

Have interest in the Indian Fighting Army in late Arizona Territory Apache Wars? Then you cannot pass this book up.

Recommended.

Semper Fi.

2006-10-12 (Virginia, U.S.A.) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5

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Primitives

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take the left hand path again with Charles Gatewood
For those of you who may have missed it the first time around, here is the beautiful second edition printing of PRIMITIVES. First released in 1992, no one had ever seen anything like Gatewood's collection of black and white portraits before, depicting such a wide range of body art and individual expression.

Schooled as an anthropologist, Gatewood has fused his education with his love of photography, and has followed and documented U.S. subcultures for the past three decades.

Portraits include many (now) well-known figures: father of Modern Primitivism Fakir Musafar, London tattooist Alex Binnie, performance artist Ron Athey, piercer Elayne Binnie, writer/performer Lily (then Braindrop) Burana. Sadly several portraits are now memorials: writer Marco Vassi, Sailor Sid, sideshow performer Michael Wilson.

The reproduction values of Gatewood's duotones are good in this edition, there is a new color cover photo, and a new introduction by Gatewood.

2002-04-22 | post-modern Renaissance woman (Seattle, WA United States) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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Sidetripping

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BIZARRE
This Bizarre underground classic was photographed at the end of the hippy era by Charles Gatewood and included commentary by William S. Burroughs. The photos are seedy, surrealistic, disturbing and thought provoking even without the text. Burroughs' text, however, adds a dimension of examination (and self examination,) drawing one into the scene, giving a sense of attitude and mood. You will not walk away from this book unscathed.

2008-01-09 (North Carolina Mountains) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Vintage Burroughs guides you on this Side Trip...
Get ready for the reissue of Charles Gatewood's 1975 classic, Sidetripping! Gatewood was begining to explore the edges in the late 60s and early 70s, lurking alongside any events happening on the city streets: protests, marches, fairs, parades, celebrations. New Orleans and NYC provided moist atmospheres for expression, much of that 'caught' here by Gatewood. While on assignment for Rolling Stone in London, Gatewood got to hang with Burroughs and Gysin. That meeting fruited into Burroughs providing the text. To compliment the images perfectly, read the words in your head using Burroughs distinctive, grating rasp.

2001-08-23 | post-modern Renaissance woman (Seattle, WA United States) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 4

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Charles Gatewood Photographs: The Body and Beyond

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A deluxe book featuring the very best of Charles Gatewood's award winning photographs of America's sexual underground. This rich selection of classic images should clearly indicate why Gatewood has been frequently compared to Diane Arbus.

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Embrace the Body and Beyond with Charles Gatewood
Culled from over 30s years of work documenting the fringes of human experience, Charles Gatewood has assembled a luscious collection of 50 duotone photographs from his collection. Starting with art openings and happenings in the late 60s, through the Modern Primitives movement and Burning Man in the late 90s, Gatewood has been capturing people pushing their ideas and their bodies for art and pleasure. See showoffs and gay men from Mardi Gras in the 70s. Visit the disco parties and gay sex clubs in New York. Travel from East Coast to West, and see many ideas and ideals of beauty. As with good art, this one makes you think!

2001-03-17 | post-modern Renaissance woman (Seattle, WA United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Gatewood and Geronimo

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The two pre-eminent warriors of the Apache Wars between 1878 and 1886, Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the Sixth United States Cavalry and Chiricahua leader Geronimo, respected one another in peace and feared one another in war. Within two years of his posting to Arizona in 1878, Gatewood became the army's premier "Apache man" as both a commander of Apache scouts and a reservation administrator, but his equitable treatment of Indians aroused the enmity of civilian and military detractors, and the army shunned him. In the late 1870s Geronimo, a medicine man, emerged as a brilliant Chiricahua leader and fiercely resisted his people's incarceration on inhospitable federal reservations. His fight for freedom, often bloody, in New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico triggered the deployment of hundreds of United States and Mexican troops and Apache Scouts to hunt him and his people. In the end, the United States Army recalled Gatewood to Apache service, ordering him into the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico to locate Geronimo and negotiate his band's surrender. Showing the depravity and desperation of the Apache wars, Louis Kraft dramatically recreates Gatewood's final mission and poignantly recalls the United States government's betrayal of the Chiricahuas, Geronimo, and Gatewood at the campaign's end.

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A fascinating read if the movie made you curious...
After watching, and enjoying, the movie " Geronimo - An American Legend (1993) I became curious as to whether the portrayal of the key characters in the movie (i.e. Charles Gatewood and Geronimo/Goyakla) was accurate. I found Louis Kraft's book to be very thorough and written in a way that made it accessible to a wide audience. My conclusion was that the movie was generally faithful. The story is certainly a sad one. Some of the things that emerge from the book such as Gatewood's ongoing battle with illness and the military hierarchy after the end of the campaign and Geronimo's repeated pleas as an old man for the army to be true to their word are not covered in the movie. It was very interesting to gain some historical insights into the Geronimo Campaign.

2009-01-08 (Canberra, A.C.T. Australia) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Remembering brave men
If you don't feel capable of wading through the Western history in this book, I suggest you see the movie "Geronimo." It's an excellent, slightly-fictionalized story of the Apache war chief Geronimo played by Wes Studi and Lt. Charles Gatewood played by Jason Patric.

Gatewood, the U.S. army's foremost expert on the Apaches, persuaded Geronimo to surrender in 1886. Both Geronimo and Gatewood were betrayed by the U.S. government. Geronimo was sent to Florida to prison; Gateway was sent to oblivion, remaining a lieutenant until the end of his military career.

Geronimo is remarkable as a cunning, cruel guerilla leader fighting to keep his freedom from the encroaching Whites; Gatewood is remarkable for the integrity he brought to his job as an indian agent and soldier. It's comforting to see Gatewood's qualities are remembered in book and movie long after more conventionally successful men have been forgotten.

This book maintains a high standard of accuracy and scholarship. It tells one of the best stories from the old West.

2004-04-18 | Helpful Votes: 10 | Rating: 5

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You need look no further for the facts!
I have not counted the number of books and papers regarding Geronimo's surrender but they are many. Here are the facts, easy to read, accurate, and presented in a very enjoyable read. The author has done an excellent job presenting to the common man the story of bravery, death, and hardship of the early American soldier, and the betrayal of the American Indian. Many thanks to the author and publisher. Where are the awards for them?

2001-04-06 | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5

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Latest reviews from PUBLISHERS WEEKLY and KLIATT
KLIATT, November 2000 Reviewed by Raymond L. Puffer, Ph.D., Historian, Edwards Air Force Base, CA

Most historical accounts of Geronimo and the lengthy struggle of his Apache warriors against white settlement have focused upon either the Chiricahua leader himself, or the two U.S. Army generals usually credited with forcing their bitter surrender. George Crook and Nelson Miles were indeed instrumental in planning and leading the campaigns that hounded the remnants of the Apache people into their inevitable subjugation. Neither, however, could convince the holdouts ot lay down their arms and put themselves at the white man's mercy. That role fell to a weary cavalry lieutenant, Charles B. Gatewood, who had won the Indians' grudging respect through hard fighting and his sympathy to their plight. In the course of a final meeting, which was as poignant as it was historical, Gatewood at length persuaded the exhausted "renegades" to lay down their arms to General

Miles, and to accept his offer of farmland and aid. When Geronimo did so, the last native resistance to federal hegemony came to an end. Ultimately, though, Geronimo and Lieutenant Gatewood were betrayed by the federal government.

Louis Kraft has written an important and historically significant study of the final phase of the Apache Wars. Unusual for such books, this one is as readable as popular history, and it will be enjoyed by those who have an interest in looking behind the scenes of history. The book is a fine reminder that earnest, hardworking and suffering people were responsible for the events in their textbooks.

Publishers Weekly, April 17, 2000

This recent addition to the parallel lives genre is a superbly told tale of the vicious Apache wars of the 1880s in Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico. Drawing upon a variety of original sources, Kraft (Custer and the Cheyenne) reconstructs the complex story of the famous Chiricahua leader Geronimo, a medicine man who came forward as a tribal leader and headed resistance to the coerced settlement of his people on reservations where they were to become farmers instead of nomadic hunters. Lt. Charles B. Gatewood of the 6th U.S. Cavalry was posted to Arizona in 1878 and became a respected leader of Apache scouts, who tracked Apache guerrillas for the U.S. The frail lieutenant, sent to administer the Apache reservation, seemingly treated his charges fairly, earning the enmity of civilians and army brass, which led to a stalemated career and a lengthy court case brought by a man whom Gatewood arrested for defrauding Apaches. After meeting at various times and maintaining a mutual respect, Gatewood and Geronimo came together again in 1886, when the former was ordered to track the latter to Mexico and convince him to surrender, even as columns of American and Mexican troops searched for Geronimo's elusive group. The tension and frustrations of what was Gatewood's final mission are palpable, as he convinces Geronimo to allow the tribe's "relocation" to Florida. Gatewood, who gets much fuller treatment here than his counterpart, never got his due for brilliant service in tragically misguided cause, and Geronimo never again saw his homeland or many of his family, from whom he was separated.

2001-01-17 | Helpful Votes: 12 | Rating: 5

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Much Needed Study
"Gatewood and Geronimo" by Louis Kraft documents the heroic deeds of a man of unheralded greatness, of one Charles B. Gatewood. Many lesser men rose to the rank of general while Gatewood died holding the same rank he held when he played the key role in efecting the surrender of the formidable Apache warrior, Geronimo. The surrender of Geronimo effectively ended the American Indian Wars. Kraft's volume brings focus on the long neglected importance of Gatewood's role in American history, and on the long term effects that one ordinary man's moral integrity can have on human history, even though it was ignored, and even despised while Gatewood was alive.

2000-10-18 (Peoria, Arizona USA) | Helpful Votes: 14 | Rating: 5

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Messy Girls!

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MESSY GIRLS, the new book of famous Photographer Charles Gatewood, showing over 340 "Sploshing" color photographs of beautiful young fetish girls, naked and proud, smearing their nubile young bodies with pudding, honey and whipped cream, plus every messy substance imaginable. Arty! Sexy! Fresh! & Funny!

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Squishy!!! Sexy!!! Sploshing!!!
This book is exactly what I was looking for. I have had sploshing fantasies for years now. I have never given in and bought any of the magazines or "movies" out there... I usually just look at pix on the net. But this book is fabulous! It's so colorful and every page has a girl full of mess on her. Charles Gatewood is the master of food fetish / sploshing photography... I can't imagine it getting much better than this.

2005-02-04 | stoopidgerl (Mount Clemens, MI United States) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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