Playing It Close To the Edge In The Haunted Sierra Madres.
By Tim Vanderpool
RANDY GINGRICH IS living proof that death can be a tough
gig. Death of a forest, death of a culture, death threats, death
of innocence they re all daily fodder in Mexico s haunted Sierra
Madre Mountains, just like the scent of ripe Chihuahuan poppies
and the crack of gunfire. It s a ruggedly remote highland where the pale rider wears a
narcotraficante s poison grin, totes a clear-cutter s buzz-saw
and doesn t take kindly to complications. Depending upon your perspective, Gingrich could be considered
a complication
en extremis. He heads the Sierra Madre Alliance,
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The Tsonka Ne Nde tribe (or, familiarly, Chiricahuas) held sway over the southern Arizona and western New Mexico territories for decades. Their history is heavily accented by conflict with numerous other peoples and, finally, with the U.S. Army.
No bigger obstacle to Manifest Destiny was more evident than the Apaches, and the great chief Cochise was the best example of their resistance to the advancement of the âwhite eyes.â
First, let s clear up a historical error. His hard-to-pronounce (translating from Apache to English) name sounded like Cachise. During the founding of Cochise County, which was originally a hunk of Pima County, an official misspelled his name; hence Cachise became Cochise. I do not think he cared a whit.