Paul Andrew Hutton > Quotes

“The language of the packers quickly entered the army vocabulary. A skittish, inexperienced young mule had its tail shaved so as to be instantly recognizable to the packers. “Shavetail” soon became the name for every spit-and-polish, greenhorn lieutenant from the East. A”
― Paul Andrew Hutton, The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

“Unprotected by the army, the Mexican peasants were helpless to resist the Apache raiders, with scores carried off into captivity and hundreds more slaughtered. The desert now reclaimed the untilled fields. Cattle, sheep, mules, and goats wandered free only to fall prey to the great packs of wolves and coyotes that trailed the Apache raiding parties just as the raven shadows the predator on his rounds. Skeletons lined the roads, littered the burned haciendas, and were picked clean by scavengers in deserted villages. It was a perfect reign of terror.”
― Paul Andrew Hutton, The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

“Vincent Colyer was certainly a good man, well-meaning, sincere, and deeply committed to bringing both Christ and civilization to the Apaches; but he was no match for the hard cases—both Indian and white—who made up the population of Arizona and New Mexico.”
― Paul Andrew Hutton, The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

“Geronimo arrived at Fort Pickens, across the bay from Pensacola, on the morning of October 25. Others went to Fort Marion, near St. Augustine. It was the beginning of twenty-seven years as prisoners of war for the Chiricahua people.”
― Paul Andrew Hutton, The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

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― Paul Andrew Hutton, The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

“Carson passed through the abandoned village, riding to the sound of the guns. Topping a small bluff, he could now see the battle in progress. Carson put spurs to his horse and galloped forward with the rest of the cavalry behind. He had been there before, back in ’48, when Bent sent him to open the trading post. Jicarillas had driven him off and Bent decided to abandon the place. Now he was back to fight the greatest battle of his storied career. Pettis and his lumbering howitzers finally caught up. Before him he saw hundreds of warriors racing back and forth on their ponies, concealing themselves as they fired under the necks of the animals, and behind them on the nearby bluffs were over a thousand more. Carson’s men were outnumbered by at least four to one. “A finer sight I never saw before,” noted Pettis, “and probably shall never see again.” The young officer dismounted before Carson and McCleave and saluted. “Pettis, throw a few shell into that crowd over thar,” Carson casually remarked as he pointed to a group of chiefs in their feathered headdresses haranguing the warriors in preparation of a grand charge.”
― Paul Andrew Hutton, The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West

“The unstable Mexican state governments, like the Spanish before them, kept the people unarmed for fear of the same kind of rebellion that earned them their independence.”
― Paul Andrew Hutton, The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

“Kit Carson,”
― Paul Andrew Hutton, The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

“Don Guillermo,” Elias said to Oury with a smile, “your countrymen are grand on resoluting and speechifying, but when it comes to action, they show up exceedingly thin.”
― Paul Andrew Hutton, The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

“Another army officer upon meeting him remarked, “So this is the great Kit Carson, who has made so many Indians run!” “Yes, sometimes I ran after them,” Carson replied, “but most times they war runnin’ after me.”[13]”
― Paul Andrew Hutton, The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West