Greetings:
Today I wrote a fictional account of a meeting between Mangas and Cochise regarding Mangas encounter with John Bartlett's expedition in 1851 into Apacheria to finalize boundary between US and Mexico. The Apaches, whose territory the Gadsen Purchase impacted, were of course not even included in the negotiations! Unfortunately from Mangas point of view the meeting went poorly as he strongly communicated to Cochise and his warriors in Cochise's stronghold. "Pindah never really understood Apache culture" and even worse rebuffed Mangas' offer of support against the Mexicans "on the grounds that America was at peace with Mexico!"
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