| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Mickey Free: Apache Captive, Interpreter, and Indian Scout. By Allan Radbourne. (Tucson: Arizona Historical Society, 2005. viii + 302 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index, $34.95.)
On 27 January 1861, Apache raiders abducted thirteen-year-old Felix Telles Ward from his family's ranch in Sonorita, Arizona. Adopted by the Apaches and trained as a warrior, he never returned to the home of his Mexican mother and Irish stepfather, John Ward. Nicknamed "Mickey Free" after a character in a popular Irish novel, at the age of twenty-five, he was recruited as an interpreter and Indian scout. Later, he served as an Indian policeman, packer, and informant on Apache language and culture.	1
English historian Allan Radbourne relates the story of Felix Ward's transformation into Mickey Free, utilizing primary sources, including recollections of family members. A photograph sparked Radbourne's interest in this little-known player in the Indian conflicts. Although the illiterate Mickey left no written records, a number of photographs survive, affirming his unique appearance with a pale right eye and a blind left eye, framed by abundant auburn hair.	. . .

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