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Mickey Free (b. 1847/1848; d. 1914, Apache name Mig-gan-la-iae), birth name Felix Telles, [2] was an Apache Indian scout and bounty hunter on the American frontier. [3] [4] Following his kidnapping by Apaches as a child, he was raised as one and became a warrior.
Later, Chihuahua offered the same bounty for males plus a bounty of 50 pesos for the capture of an adult female and 25 pesos for a child under 14. Bounty hunters were also allowed to keep any Apache property they captured. The bounty for one Apache male was more than many Mexicans and American workers earned in a full year. [18]
Zebina Streeter (October 8, 1838 – June 26, 1889) was an American renegade known for the time he spent with the Apache tribes. Beginning in the 1870s, he raided Mexico and the Southwestern United States with Juh, a Chiricahua leader. He gained a reputation as a fierce warrior, earning the nickname White Apache.
James Kirker (1793–1852) was an Irish-born American privateer, soldier, mercenary, merchant, Mountain man, and scalp hunter. He is best known for his contracts with the Mexican government to enslave, kill and scalp Apache Indians. [1] James Kirker (signed Don Santiago at bottom of photo) 1847, by Thomas Martin Easterly
One of the earliest examples of scalping dates back to the mesolithic period, found at a hunter-gatherer cemetery in Sweden. [3] Several human remains from the stone-age Ertebølle culture in Denmark show evidence of scalping. [4] A man found in a grave in the Alvastra pile-dwelling in Sweden had been scalped approximately 5,000 years ago. [5]
Former police officer turned bounty hunter based in Akron, Ohio. Bounty Tank has a YouTube channel with raw footage of real life bounty hunting as Bounty Tank chases down fugitives who have skipped court on bond. Mickey Free: 1851–1915 A Mexican-born Apache scout and bounty hunter on the American frontier. In his time as a bounty hunter, Free ...
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The first Apache raids on Sonora and Chihuahua took place in the late 17th century. To counter the early Apache raids on Spanish settlements, presidios were established at Janos (1685) in Chihuahua and at Fronteras (1690) in what is now northeastern Sonora, then Opata country. In 1835, Mexico had placed a bounty on Apache scalps.