| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Chevato: The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehmann. By William Chebahtah and Nancy McGown Minor. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi, 276 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-1097-4.)
On May 16, 1870, Mescalero Apaches, raiding near Fredericksburg, Texas, captured ten- year-old Herman Lehmann. Billy Chiwat, or Chevato as he called himself, was one of the raiders who captured Lehmann. Chevato helped Lehmann survive captivity and become a member of the tribe. Lehman ultimately returned to his family, but never readjusted completely to white society.	1
The book contains in italics the stories of the capture of Lehmann and of Chevato's life as Chevato related them to his grandson William Chebahtah. Chevato, originally a Lipan Apache, was born about 1852 near Zaragosa, Coahuila, Mexico. As did other tribes in the region, the Lipan raided in Texas and Mexico, stealing cattle, horses, and taking captives. Chevato said that in 1869 Mexicans attacked the Zaragosa camp of his tribe, massacring many Lipans, including his parents. Chevato, his brother Dinero, and infant sister survived, fleeing north of the international border. Leaving their sister with white settlers in New Mexico, the two brothers raided with the Mescalero Apaches in the mountains near present-day Ruidoso. Five years later Chevato joined the Comanche tribe with which he ultimately moved to Oklahoma in 1893. He died of pneumonia in 1931.	. . .

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