The Apache Kid: Army Apache Scout
By W. Michael Farmer (Hat Creek, June 2025)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Pages: 312
Via: Book Blog Tour
Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review
From Army Scout to Outlaw, from Hero to Legend.
This is the story of a gifted man “suspended on a cross between two cultures” who became the best army Apache scout and the most feared outlaw in the southwest borderlands. And then disappeared.
Apache Kid opens in Aravaipa, Arizona in May 1871. Young Ohyessonna (“Hears something in the night”) is living with his family.
He survives the embers of the fires and murders at the Camp Grant Massacre of Apaches. Young Has-kay-bay-nay-ntayl (“brave and tall and will come to a mysterious end”) is known by many names growing up. But growing up in two cultures means choosing between loyalty and betrayal, choosing between his people and their overseers.
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