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John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett's boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Life Among the Apaches is the recollections of John Cremony, the first white man to learn Apache. He spent many years in the American Southwest as a military man, eventually being promoted to Major.

Major John C. Cremony (1815 - August 24, 1879 was an American soldier who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and later became a newspaperman in San Francisco.Early lifeCremony was born in Boston in 1815 and claimed to have been of Cuban descent. He ran away to... Read Full Overview

John C. Cremony's first encounter with the Indians of the Southwest occurred in the early 1850s, when he accompanied John R. Bartlett's boundary commission surveying the United States-Mexican border. Some ten years later, as an officer of the California Volunteers, he renewed... Read Full Overview