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About to embark on the road of captivity and exile, the Chiricahua Apache women at Fort Bowie were changing women. They were the brave mothers, wives, daughters, widows, warriors, lovers, and friends of the Chiricahua men with whom General Crook met at Canyon de los Embudos. Some faced exile together with their beloved men, while many had only each other and their children for comfort, yet others children were taken. Battling nearly overwhelming obstacles, the women managed to care for themselves and their children until felled by a relentless tide of deadly diseases. These were the very real women of legend and lore, the grandmothers and great-grandmothers of living Chiricahua Apaches for whom the Chiricahua men fought. @CherokeeOwl 🦉 @BrettColdwell