In 1887, a controversial incident would forever alter the life of a highly regarded cavalry scout known as the Apache Kid, causing him to go from assisting the U.S. military to being hunted by them
It would appear the Apache Kid and his friends were renegades from his own community for working for the U.S and nearly all of the 44 victims were lawmen or the clan who killed his father and grandfather trying to kill him: we can assume the Mormon women were attacked for as an uneducated guess of mine being high-ranking polygamous wives of a Mormon lawman (albeit reluctantly allied as the Mormons and the U.S HATED each other). The kidnappings could simply have been the Apache Kid liberating them from a cult and they willingly gave him money stolen from their husband's safe: the Apache Kid robbed the victims he killed since he would have needed money for survival (stealing crops and livestock all the time would have been too risky). The ranches he raided would have been those of lawmen (since the Apache Kid obviously worked for the U.S government as a turncoat) and he robbed freight trains for survival (we can assume he did not go after passenger trains because he did not want to hurt innocent people). I would also think that the multiple murder charges he was tried for in the newspaper included the vigilante killings, but that he was found innocent of THEM due to being blackout drunk.
The only reason his sentence was commuted and pardoned beforehand was so he could be tried for his vigilantism before being executed: remember Saddam Hussein was not tried for his serious crimes because the U.S funded him even if they did not order the gassing of the Kurdish Stalinists. The only people sympathetic to Native Americans in those days were Natives, white supremacist neo-Romantics who viewed Natives as "noble savages," and ex-Confederates who had slave-owning Native allies. The accounts of his death are no contradictory, as a mob of whites and the clan of his father's and grandfather's killers could have been able to capture him and kill him because he was dying of tuberculosis: since he was tried for vigilantism we can assume the mob was not trying to kill him but was acting under posse comitatus and accidentally killed him when literally smoking him out (otherwise they would have lynched him with tar and feathers and burnt him, like they did with all nonwhites, ahero-heteronormatives, immigrants, adulterers, fornicators, pimps, prostitutes, solicitors, Republicans, Northerners, utopian socialists, pickpockets, petty thieves, travelling salesmen and smiths, tinkers, quacks, gamblers, cheaters at cards, and actors).
Great story. Thanks for putting it out. I had not heard of the Apache Kid. More needs to be written.
It would appear the Apache Kid and his friends were renegades from his own community for working for the U.S and nearly all of the 44 victims were lawmen or the clan who killed his father and grandfather trying to kill him: we can assume the Mormon women were attacked for as an uneducated guess of mine being high-ranking polygamous wives of a Mormon lawman (albeit reluctantly allied as the Mormons and the U.S HATED each other). The kidnappings could simply have been the Apache Kid liberating them from a cult and they willingly gave him money stolen from their husband's safe: the Apache Kid robbed the victims he killed since he would have needed money for survival (stealing crops and livestock all the time would have been too risky). The ranches he raided would have been those of lawmen (since the Apache Kid obviously worked for the U.S government as a turncoat) and he robbed freight trains for survival (we can assume he did not go after passenger trains because he did not want to hurt innocent people). I would also think that the multiple murder charges he was tried for in the newspaper included the vigilante killings, but that he was found innocent of THEM due to being blackout drunk.
The only reason his sentence was commuted and pardoned beforehand was so he could be tried for his vigilantism before being executed: remember Saddam Hussein was not tried for his serious crimes because the U.S funded him even if they did not order the gassing of the Kurdish Stalinists. The only people sympathetic to Native Americans in those days were Natives, white supremacist neo-Romantics who viewed Natives as "noble savages," and ex-Confederates who had slave-owning Native allies. The accounts of his death are no contradictory, as a mob of whites and the clan of his father's and grandfather's killers could have been able to capture him and kill him because he was dying of tuberculosis: since he was tried for vigilantism we can assume the mob was not trying to kill him but was acting under posse comitatus and accidentally killed him when literally smoking him out (otherwise they would have lynched him with tar and feathers and burnt him, like they did with all nonwhites, ahero-heteronormatives, immigrants, adulterers, fornicators, pimps, prostitutes, solicitors, Republicans, Northerners, utopian socialists, pickpockets, petty thieves, travelling salesmen and smiths, tinkers, quacks, gamblers, cheaters at cards, and actors).