Letter to President Grover Cleveland, 1886

Generations of violence convinced many Euro-Americans and Native Americans that there was no solution for peaceful coexistence.
Euro-American interest in Apache lands only enhanced the pressures for their removal.
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Letter to President Grover Cleveland 1886

This letter argues that peace with the Chiricahua and Warm Springs bands of Apache will never be possible and that development of the region will continue to flounder without their extermination or removal.

National Archives, Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1762–1984