Atlas of the Victorio Campaign 1879-1881

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Atlas of the Victorio Campaign 1879-1881 delivers a visual account of the relentless guerrilla campaign pursued by Victorio, leader of the Chihenne Apache for the return of their reservation lands around Ojo Caliente, New Mexico.

Between September 1879 and October 1880, Victorio’s warriors accounted for 78% of the Ninth Cavalry’s Buffalo Soldier fatalities sustained during the post-Civil War Indian Wars. (1866 to 1891), crippled that regiment’s ability to operate in the field for three months and temporarily bankrupted the US Army through his targeting of horses and mules.

Atlas of the Victorio Campaign contains all the new material gathered since the publication of the Victorio Campaign trilogy 2017 and 2019 including new archaeological evidence reinterpreting an ambush near McEvers Ranch in September 1879. The author also finally visited (via mule) the site of one of Victorio’s greatest victories at Massacre Canyon and for the first time gives a coherent account of this battle. Finally, visualisations of the Cuchillo Negro battle, 16 August 1881, have been included for the first time.

Finally, Atlas of the Victorio Campaign combines the existing maps and diagrams from the author’s trilogy of the Victorio Campaign with their accompanying captions. In the trilogy the maps/diagrams were at the centre of each volume, but their captions are listed near the beginning of the book. This Atlas, aside from being a valuable resource in itself, will, in conjunction with the Victorio Campaign trilogy, enhance the reader’s experience of reading these volumes without the distraction of jumping back and forth between the front and middle of these books.

AUTHOR:
Dr Robert N. Watt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS) at the University of Birmingham, UK. His main area of research is the Apache Wars of 1860-1886 with particular reference to the Victorio Campaign of 1879-1881. He has made numerous archive and field trips to the USA and has published a trilogy on the Victorio Campaign with Helion, two Osprey books and seven articles on the US Army and the Chiricahua Apaches. He has just published a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of American Military History on ‘Native American Warfare’ In 2017 he was awarded a Moncado Prize by the Society for Military History for his article on Tres Castillos in the Journal of Military History.

1 colour illustration, 129 colour photos, 1 b/w map, 43 colour maps, 26 figures, 9 tables

ISBN: 9781806722525
Author: WATT, ROBERT N.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01/02/2027
RRP: $95.00
Pages: 160
Dimension: 297mm X 210mm
Imprint: Helion & Company