Author: Alicia Delgadillo From 1886 to 1913, hundreds of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and children lived and died as prisoners of war in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Their names, faces, and lives have long been forgotten by history, and for nearly one hundred years these individuals have been nothing more than statistics in the history of the United States tumultuous war against the Chiricahua Apache. Based on extensive archival research, From Fort Marion to Fort Sill offers long-overdue documentation of the lives and fate of many of these people. This outstanding reference work provides individual biographies for hundreds of the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war, including those originally classified as POWs in 1886, infants who lived only a few days, children removed from families and sent to Indian boarding schools, and second-generation POWs who lived well into the twenty-first century. Their biographies are often poignant and revealing, and more than sixty previously unpublished photographs give a further glimpse of their humanity. This masterful documentary work, based on the unpublished research notes of former Fort Sill historian Gillett Griswold, at last brings to light the lives and experiences of hundreds of Chiricahua Apaches whose story has gone untold for too long.

Author: Mary F.W. Gibson A teenage orphan from Vermont, Mary Gibson burst onto the literary scene during the early 1850s as a star writer, under the pseudonym Winnie Woodfern, for more than half a dozen Boston story papers, mass-circulation weekly periodicals that specialized in popular fiction. Although she would soon join such famous woman authors as Fannie Fern and E. D. E. N. Southworth as featured contributors to the New York Ledger, Americas greatest story paper, Gibsons subsequent output rarely matched the gender-bending creativity of the tales written in her late teens and early twenties and reprinted in this volume. But Hero Strong and Other Stories does much more than recover the work of a forgotten literary prodigy. As explained by historian Daniel A. Cohen, Gibsons tales also illuminate major interrelated transformations in American girlhood and American womens authorship. Challenging traditional gender expectations, thousands of girls of Gibsons generation not only aspired to public careers as writers, artists, educators, and even doctors but also began to experiment with new forms of female masculinity in attitude, bearing, behavior, dress, and sexualitya pattern only gradually domesticated by the nonthreatening image of the tomboy. Some, such as Gibson, at once realized and reenacted their dreams on the pages of antebellum story papers. This first modern scholarly edition of Mary Gibsons early fiction features ten tales of teenage girls (seemingly much like Gibson herself) who fearlessly appropriate masculine traits, defy contemporary gender norms, and struggle to fulfill high worldly ambitions. In addition to several heroines who seek fame and riches as authors or artists, Gibsons unconventional protagonists include three female medical students who resort to grave robbing and a Boston ingenue who dreams of achieving military glory in battle. By moving beyond literary domesticity and embracing bold new models of womens authorship, artistry, and worldly achievement, Gibson and her fictional protagonists stand as exemplars of the first generation of American girls who imagined they could do almost anything.