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Al Sieber (February 27, 1843 [2] [notes 1] – February 19, 1907) was a German-American immigrant who fought in the American Civil War (1861-1865), and in the American Old West frontier against the Native Americans. (Indians) in the later American Indian Wars of the mid to late 19th century.
Jan 20, 2023 · The Kid was acting chief of scouts while Al Sieber was away at Fort Apache and the White River Subagency. Upon his return to San Carlos, Sieber has summoned the Kid after hearing he killed another Apache in an alcohol-fueled family feud.
- July 17, 1882
- Apache Time Line
- A Tactical Bronco Blunder
- Arizona Charlie
- Al Sieber’s Deadly Efficiency
- Aftermath: Odds & Ends
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Apache leader Na-ti-o-tish (center) positions his warriors along a narrow gorge eight miles north of the Mogollon Rim in east central Arizona. They have built rifle pits and stackedrock wings adjacent to large pine trees, awaiting a small troop of soldiers (55 men) who will pass, single file on horseback, directly below them. Stopping within three-...
In the spring of 1881, Noch-ay-del-klinne (right), a White Mountain Apache medicine man, taught the Apaches a new dance. The performers arranged themselves like the spokes of a wheel, all facing inward, while the medicine man stood in the hub and sprinkled them with the sacred hoddentin (from the pollen of the tule) as they circled around him. As A...
In the parlance of the times, Apaches who escape the San Carlos Reservation are called “Bronco Apaches.” Na-ti-o-tish, neither a chief nor a war leader, leads about 54 Bronco Apaches—including women and children—on a killing and raiding spree, no doubt angered by the death of their medicine man (see time line). After plundering through Pleasant Val...
Arizona is the home today of many famous people, but its first real superstar was a rodeo cowboy and Wild West performer named Charlie Meadows, better known as “Arizona Charlie.” In 1877, the Meadows family settled on a ranch at Diamond Valley, north of Payson, where the community of Whispering Pines is today. In July 1882, Charlie had ridden to Pi...
An immigrant from Germany, Sieber joined the Army just after his 18th birthday, fighting at Gettysburg with the First Minnesota. On the second day of the battle, he was severely wounded in a bayonet charge. Ultimately discharged, he wandered West, landing in Prescott, Arizona, where he distinguished himself in several Indian fights. He rejoined the...
Lieutenant George Morgan survived his wound, as “the slug had only gone around his ribs and lodged in the back muscles.” Sgt. Daniel Conn (“Hog Sergeant”) survived his throat wound, joking, “Sure, I heard the Cap’n say I was kilt, but I knew I was not. I was only speechless!” Pvt. Joseph McLernon died within an hour. One of the Apache scouts, Pvt. ...
The official citations read: Thomas Cruse (July 12, 1892) “Second Lieut. 6th US Cavalry—Gallantly charged hostile indians, and with his carbine compelled a party of them to keep under cover of their breastworks, thus being enabled to recover a severely wounded soldier.” George Morgan (July 15, 1892) “Second Lieut. 3rd US Cavalry—Gallantly held his ...
When the Camp Verde Reservation was closed in February, 1875, Sieber was responsible for helping relocate the Yavapai and Tonto Apaches to San Carlos. This was a difficult and dangerous duty, and the events of the transfer are among the most tragic in the history of the Old West.
Feb 25, 2014 · . Al Sieber, Chief of Scouts. .One of the greatest (though usually unsung) heroes of the West, the man who, more than any other except perhaps General Crook was responsible for the pacification of the Apaches in the Southwest in the 1870s and 1880s, was Albert Sieber (1844 – 1907).
Feb 24, 2015 · Chief of Scouts Al Sieber was crippled for life after his leg stopped a .45-70 bullet while trying to disarm the Apache Kid and others after a deadly drunken melee at San Carlos during the summer of 1887.
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Al Sieber: Chief of Scouts. By Dan L. Thrapp. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. xvi + 432 pp. Map, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $6.95.) Al Sieber achieved fame as a leader of Indian scouts in the campaigns against the Apaches in the 1870's and 1880's. Gen-eral George Crook of the United States Army is credited with
