Posset was the stranger who held it ... Chavez was the Mexican who worked it ... and Geronimo baptized it with blood.
Arizona was a wild, forbidding land. The Indians had possessed it since the beginning of time, and they prized their freedom. The white men were newcomers who hungered for gold, silver, cattle and the land itself.
Apache and white man were natural enemies and the Mexicans were alien to both. So when each claimed the territory, their clash was bloody, violent and disastrous. Joe Blade was in the middle of it all.