| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Book Review

Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief. Oklahoma Western Biographies Series. By Kathleen P. Chamberlain. Foreword by Richard W. Etulain. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxii + 242 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographic essay, index. $24.95.)

Chief Victorio, brilliant leader of the Warm Springs band of the Chiricahua Apaches, deserves a more prominent place in history than he has been awarded. Chamberlain sets out to establish such a position. She succeeds in many areas. In particular, she has condensed a large amount of information and written an ethnographic overview of his life, the external circumstances that shaped him, and the situations that caused his reactions. One problem, though, in this western biographies series written for general and academic readers, is a lack of endnotes. Frustrating for historians, it asks the reader's total trust in the author's accuracy and interpretations—a delicate situation, especially regarding material written about the Apaches who have for so long been misrepresented and mythologized in film and pulp fiction. Along with that, I feel cheated by the absence of specifically identified sources that would enlarge and challenge my own information.

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