The Severed Heads Campaign (U.S. Army campaign which paid for beheadings)

True West Magazine ^

[Red in Blue PA]

Brutal, but true, the little-known account of the U.S. Army paying for beheadings during the ferocious Apache Wars.

[Red in Blue PA]

I was posting this on another thread, but because I had never heard of it until recently thought I would share.

For those who have an interest in history and the old west, consider a subscription in True West Magazine. The beast magazine, bar none, I have ever read.

[gundog]

Beast magazine?

[Red in Blue PA]

Best

[machogirl]

I just finished reading “Vanished Arizona” by Martha Summerhayes which is fascinating. A diary of her time as an Army Wife (1874-1908). She spent considerable time in AZ and I couldn’t stop reading. Free on the Gutenberg Project (I’m sure there are other free downloads also). This does mentions the Army and Indian HEADS. Fascinating history of the Colorado steamers and HOW these soldiers and families had to live in the outposts/desert.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1049/1049-h/1049-h.htm

[windcliff]

ping

[Bratch]

Heads >>> scalps

[gundog]

More recently....

[Red in Blue PA]

Thanks for posting.....will have to check that out.

[Tripoli]

Just because you did not know about this does not make it little known. I am glad you read it in the “beast” mag.

[Red in Blue PA]

Just because you did not know about this does not make it little known.

I would venture a guess that the majority of people (even here at FR) are unaware of this campaign.

[Red in Blue PA]

BTW, the “little known” part is from the article itself, not from me.

[machogirl]

Welcome Most interesting and I had the google map up while reading to check some of these places out. Lost of what I saw riding the highways/byways of my home state, I never knew what the names were for. I love this history (before PC and almost always FREE).

[Nifster]

I grew up in ‘the west’ and for anyone who cared about the history of where they lived these stories are well known and well told.

[Big Red Badger]

Just finished Cochise by E. Sweeney great book,lightly touches on the fact that Mangas Coloradas was beheaded.

Nothing new under the Sun.

[Nifster]

And you might want to give Georgia Backroads a try if you enjoy True West

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I still have a large collection of TRUE WEST, FRONTIER TIMES and OLD WEST from the late 1960s to mid 1970s. lots of hidden history there.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember seeing a Remington painting of a scout bringing in HEADS, not scalps.

Gives new meaning to the scene in ULZANA’S RAID in which the troops want to bring in either the body or the head of Ulzana.

[pleasenotcalifornia]

Their was a bounty for Indian scalps in California if my memory serves me right until 1904.

[pleasenotcalifornia]

Their was a bounty for Indian scalps in California if my memory serves me right until 1904?

[plain talk]

I never heard of it. If I had I would not be belittling those who had not heard of it.