The Tonto Apaches were the western-most group of Apache Indians and had been in the remote Rim Country of Arizona for hundreds of years before the arrival of white trappers, miners, and settlers. They lived off the land as hunter-gatherers, occasionally raiding other groups to acquire horses or cows. The arrival of a larger number of white settlers in the 1800s would begin the inevitable march towards conflict between two very different cultures -...
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