The First Hundred Years of Nino Cochise (The Untold Story of an Apache Indian Chief)

The reviewers who call this book fraudelent obviously haven't researched the matter. Nino Cochise gave names, rough dates and places of people and events that have only come to light during the past decade, thanks to the myriad geneology resources.1) Nino knew about the Mormon adventures in Mexico at a time when no one else was paying any attention at all.2) Nino knew John Brewer and Ammon Tenney were Mormons and in Mexico during that time. Those names were crucial to the Lost Adams Diggings legend, but the Mormon connection had gone unnoticed and would have remained unnoticed had it not been for this obscure tome by Nino Cochise.3) Brewer and Tenney both fathered children in Mexico. How could a fake Nino have even known they'd been there?4) Nino told of a gold mine named 'Sno-ta-hay'. That's the Apache name of the gold mine in the Lost Adams story. Nino said the name had a meaning. Until Nino's book no one had any idea what the word meant. The word described the nature of the placer. There's no reason to suspect Nino ever heard of the Lost Adams Diggings.And much more, with new evidence emerging every day.Those who call this book a fake probably do so because of their partisanship in the location of the Lost Adams Diggings location. Nino's book, because it verifies the Brewer/Tenney connection, destroys a lot of pet theories. However, it's difficult to imagine anyone who takes the trouble to research the Nino story and the multitude of verifiable facts making any assertion of the sort.

A friend loaned me this book and I've been searching for a copy for myself. Since reading this book almost three years ago I've spent the past couple of years travelling around the Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico border. I'll be travelling there more in the future, still trying to imagine the place as it was over a hundred years ago. These mountains are so rugged they've hardly changed, but for the cities and all of the amenities that come with interstate highways. They create a dichotomy that's almost, but just not real. Gas stations, border patrol agents, realtors, and everyone else seem to be ruining my vision of a time and place that are forever gone. May the spirit of Cochise never leave this place, unforgivingly rugged and magically beautiful both!

This book chronicles the life way of the only Chiricahui Apaches to escape subjegation of the both the American and Mexican authorities. This family tribe of 38 individuals slipped below the Mexican border in 1876 and relocated to the mountain stronghold of Pa-Gotzin-Kay in the Sierra Madres of Sonora. "Ciye" Nino Cochise the hereditary chief and grandson of the famous Chies Cochise guides the "Nameless Ones" into an unknown future. Their goal; to live life as a free people with control of their destiny. I urge you to read this book. Every aspect of human endeavor and struggle is brought to life with the passion of Nino's own words. From tribal chieftain to Hollywood actor, Nino lived the lives of 10 men. He fought hand to hand against renegade Apaches, gold hungry miners, and Mexican revolutionaries. My children will read this book. Their appreciation of today and how it came to be will be enhaced having read Nino's book.If you read this book and want to know more of Nino Cochise, please email me at...

forget everything hollywood has ever taught you. this is the real truth of the apache way of life. the suffering and hardships at the hands of the white man. the joys and sorrows of trying to remain a free people among those that would try to deny the indian their right to an identity. a fascinating journey through the life of a person who was there.

I read this book nearly 30 years ago, when I was a young woman trying to fit into my Native American background. It was real, from the eyes of someone who had witnessed history. He was related to and describing someone who I had admired most of my life. Now I want a copy to pass along to my Grandchildren so they can read, first hand their heritage. It revealed the hardships of a people who were robbed of their home and their idenity, championed only by the White man,Tom Jeffords, the Government's Laison of Indian Affairs. Totally engrossing. Totally real.