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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.
Apr 26, 2013 · History Friday – Mickey Free, the Apache Indian Scout. His name wasn’t really Mickey Free, and he wasn’t really an Apache Indian. The legendary Al Sieber, chief of Army scouts in the badlands of the Southwest after the Civil War once described him as ‘Half Mexican, half Irish and whole S-O-B.’ Mickey Free was one of Sieber’s scouts ...
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).
Aug 9, 2020 · Al Seiber & his scouts. In May of 1875, I brought 40 of my scouts into Prescott to put on a show on the Plaza. They dressed in their warpaint, and demonstrated pursuing a victim with their blood-curdling screeches. Now the miners, I respect them; many were familiar with what was going on.
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.
Jul 11, 2012 · Al Sieber = BADASS. Serving as Chief of Scouts through the Apache Wars in Arizona Territory in the 1870s-80s, Sieber compiled a record unsurpassed in the annals of the Frontier Partisans. His greatest talent lay in working with Apache, Walapai and Yavapai scouts.
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Albert Sieber could have been an inspiration for Karl May’s fictional frontier character “Old Shatterhand.” During 1848, Sieber’s family emigrated as revolutionary unrest raged throughout their homeland.
