[HIGHLIGHTS] It was no good thing to be captured alive by them: a new history of the Apache wars recreates the long struggle of the people of Cochise and Geronimo

American historian Paul Andrew Hutton reviews half a century of fighting, brutality and adventure in the last frontier of the Wild West. "It was not a good thing to be captured alive by the Apaches," sums up Hutton, concitating images of The Revenge of Ulzana, the iconic film by Robert Aldrich.

The book is a vast fresco full of details worthy of John Ford, such as the derogatory name given by theApache military: Nantan Eclatten, "rookie lieutenant and virgin"