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Thomas Jefferson Jeffords (January 1, 1832 – February 19, 1914) [1] was a United States Army scout, Indian agent, prospector, and superintendent of overland mail in the Arizona Territory. His friendship with Apache leader Cochise was instrumental in ending the Indian wars in that region. [2]
Sep 18, 2023 · The friendship between Tom Jeffords and Chief Cochise became the stuff of Old West legend. In 1947, their story was fictionalized in the best-selling novel, Blood Brother, by Elliot Arnold.
Dec 4, 2017 · Tom Jeffords. Tom Jeffords is best known as an Indian agent in Arizona Territory—and for his close relationship with Apache Chief Cochise. In fact, Jeffords was with Cochise during the chief’s final illness in July 1874.
Sep 18, 2017 · Folks know Thomas Jefferson Jeffords from the 1947 novel, Blood Brother, by Elliot Arnold, and from the 1950 movie based on that novel, Broken Arrow, starring Jimmy Stewart and Jeff Chandler. John Lupton and Michael Ansara played these same roles for the 1956-58 TV series.
Apr 22, 2017 · Tom Jeffords helped halt the bitter warfare between Americans and Apaches and served his Chiricahua friend Cochise as Indian agent—for a time. (Arizona Historical Society)
Thomas Jefferson Jeffords (January 1, 1832 – February 19, 1914) was a United States Army scout, Indian agent, prospector, and superintendent of overland mail in the Arizona Territory. His friendship with Apache leader Cochise was instrumental in ending the Indian wars in that region.
When Tom Jeffords became the first and only agent of the Chiricahua Apache Reservation, he had no idea the job he accepted would prove an impossible task.
Feb 14, 2017 · the author of over twenty books on the life and literature of the Southwest. His latest volume, published in 1982 by the University of Oklahoma Press, is Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City. He is the senior editor of this magazine. Tom Jeffords on the way to his final resting place.
May 1, 2017 · The first full-length biography of the Western legend Tom Jeffords, immortalized by Jimmy Stewart in 1950’s Broken Arrow.
Tom Jeffords - Indian Agent. by. Harry G. Cramer III. Near the end of 1872 General O. O. Howard had his famous interview with Cochise, the great Apache chief, bringing to an end twelve years of bitter hostility which had devastated the Arizona frontier.
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