| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1 | The History Cooperative

H. Henrietta Stockel. On the Bloody Road to Jesus: Christianity and the Chiricahua Apaches. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2004. Pp. xxi, 314. $29.95.
This book provides a sketch of four hundred years of "the Chiricahua Apaches' experiences with Christianity" (p. xv). As might be expected, it does not exhaust the subject. This long and complex history of religious contact, exchange, and resistance deserves further original research.	1
The Jesuits' evangelizing efforts in northern Mexico lasted from the mid-seventeenth century until 1767, the year of their expulsion by the king of Spain. Fourteen Franciscan missionaries then took up the cause, one that placed Apaches in a "staggering predicament" (p. 80): to stay out of the missions and risk conflict with superiorly armed soldiers, or to settle in the missions where they risked exposure to diseases and transfer to lives of slavery in Mexico City and beyond. Deportation to Cuba was a common practice by 1789. The 1790s brought smallpox. This was indeed a bloody road.	. . .

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