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Cochise maintained his innocence and offered to look into the matter with other Apache groups, but the officer tried to arrest him. Cochise escaped by drawing a knife and slashing his way out of the tent, [3] but was shot at as he fled. [3] Bascom captured some of Cochise's relatives, who apparently were taken by surprise as Cochise escaped.
The Cochise County Cowboys is the modern name for a loosely associated group of outlaws living in Pima and Cochise County, Arizona in the late 19th century. The term " cowboy ", as opposed to " cowhand ," had only begun to come into wider usage during the 1870s.
Cochise County in southeastern Arizona was the scene of a number of violent conflicts in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West, including between white settlers and Apache Indians, between opposing political and economic factions, and between outlaw gangs and local law enforcement.
Cochise County (/ k oʊ ˈ tʃ iː s / koh-CHEESS) is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is named after Cochise, a Chiricahua Apache who was a key war leader during the Apache Wars. The population was 125,447 at the 2020 census. [1] The county seat is Bisbee and the most populous city is Sierra Vista. [2]
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In Tombstone, Arizona, sheriff Johnny Behan [61] and mayor John Clum [62] organized the "Anti-Chinese League" in 1880, [63] [64] which was reorganized into the "Anti-Chinese Secret Society of Cochise County" in 1886. [65] In 1880, the Yellow Peril pogrom of Denver featured the lynching of a Chinese man and the destruction of Denver's Chinatown ...
The Cochise tradition lasted nearly five millennia, from circa 5000 until circa 200 BC. Its earliest manifestation is known as Sulphur Spring; its two later phases, the Chiricahua and San Pedro, are much better known. The Cochise tradition was named after Lake Cochise, an ancient lake now found in the Willcox Playa of Cochise County, Arizona.